Nvidia, Slackware, and a bad idea.

Goober King · 2003-08-13T09:08:22

Ok I decided to give something other than Mandrake a try. I got a hold of Slackware 9.0(I think) and got it installed and all. I''m trying to install the Nvidia drivers for may vid card but it says It need the kernel header files. I''m not sure where to point it. I''m taking hints if anyone has got one. I''m not sure this whole thing was a good idea. I have had trouble compiling things from the source in Mandrake and people have said its less of an issue with some other distros. As it stands now just getting the thing setup like I want it is proving more difficult than I''d like. Most everythings are alright but if its more difficult to do things that were quite simple before this might not make much sense. The worst thing that I ever had to do was hunt down a few extra dependencys. Dispite it name I never found dependency hell to be all that bad. More like dependency heck. For Mandrake and RH RPMs you can often find what you need quick and easy in an extra RPM or 2. I must also figure out how to get my mouse wheel working again. I guess I wasn''t paying enough attention when I picked my mouse type. Can''t live without it.

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August 13, 2003 09:08 AM

For ease of setting up use SuSE. It autodetected my SoundBlaster Live!, my Logitech mouse with a wheel and installing the nVidia driver wasn''t too hard (from what I saw on the nVidia website, I had it a lot better than other distros). The YaST2 control centre that comes with SuSE allows you to do most changes to /etc through a nice GUI interface. Installing SuSE rpms is also a breeze (thanx to YaST2). I''m not 100% sure what YaST2 stands for.

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