dubious9's Journal: Nvidia and Mandrake 9.0

Ah, first journal entry. I'll tell a little story then. I've been using Mandrake 9.0 for a while now, but still going back to 8.2 to play games because Nvidia's driver doesn't work with 9.0 yet. I finally figured that you have to have the kernel source and have it configured to build the Nvidia drivers themselves.

This was a major pain in the arse. First off the main kernel source from mandrake doesn't have XFS support built it. Had to download and patch that. Secondly, it's a bitch to troubleshoot feature that you had installed on the pre-build kernel. First time I built the kernel (and it was the first time ever), I forgot my network card. Thus after troubleshooting and rebuilding, I've had to rebuild four times now.

Learned lots o stuff though. Now I'm not a n00by with kernel builds or kernel patching anymore. ;)