Re: 2009.1 and nVidia (was KDE alternatives)

Rick Kunath wrote:
> Len Lawrence wrote:
>
>> Nope.  Black screen syndrome.  To get back to square one I had to 
>> urpme x11-video-driver-nvidia-current-180.51 then
>> urpmi nvidia.  Ran XFdrake just for laughs - it offered a low 
>> resolution in the test even though it had detected the 1920x1200 
>> screen.  Overwrote the xorg.conf with one made earlier and back in 
>> business.
>> Presumably the 190.32 driver would work with 2008.1 but I am not 
>> about to try it.
>
> I can't remember if the latest 190 series of DKMS drivers and the 
> matching X-org driver for 209.1 were in main backports, contrib 
> backports, or on PLF, but I have seen these there.
>
> Where did you get yours?
>
> Do you have these repos set up?
I think I did set up the repositories but have not used them to look for 
backports.  Not sure what to look for.  All I had tried was the beta 
driver from the nVidia site and Xorg from the Mandriva install.

Len


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