anybody use mandrake linux 9.1 with soundblaster live?

[Blomberg]

I recently installed nvidia's drivers for my GF4 (which is now dead, unfortunately) under Mandrake 9.1, and found it to be quite easy for a newbie such as myself, thanks to good documentation.

First off, I never found out how to quit the X-server without shutting down totally or rebooting, so instead I used Mandrake Control Center -> Hardware -> XFdrake -> Options to set it to *not* boot straight into X.

After that, a reboot, and I got to the console and SU'ed.
Navigated to the folder I downloaded the archive to and typed:

sh WhatEverTheArchiveNameIs.run (remember it's case-sensitive)

The installer did it's thing, I can't remember if there was any interaction there or if it just did everything itself, the latter, I think.

Reboot to the prompt, type 'startx' (without quotes) and boot into X.

Then I edited my XF86Config-4 as described in the drivers readme in section 3, i changed one word and added one line, IIRC, quite easy, it's all in the readme. XF86config-4 is in /etc/X11

Then I ran XFdrake again and set it back to boot straight into the GUI and rebooted .... all done

Well almost, I had to fiddle a bit more with XF86config-4 to get Twinview and TV-out set up, but it's all in the readme.

Nvidia's Linux section is here

Direct link to the latest IA32 archive is here

And the readme is here, you might want to print that out, at least the installing part (sorry the link didn't work, you have to copy+paste
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-4496/README.txt

Good luck, there's really nothing to it  :-)

[Blomberg]

Oh btw., when you edit the XF86config-4, you'll want to do it as root, or else your changes won't be saved.

Open a console and type:
su
(and your password)

konqueror

and then navigate to /etc/X11 and open the file with your editor of choice (i use kwrite)

or just:

su
(password)
kwrite /etc/X11/XF86config-4

[Blomberg]

Ctrl+alt+backspace closes the whole system down (or was it a reboot, can't remember), donno why Mandrake has to do that differently, everyone I talked to told me that keycombo should work, but alas ...

Oh yeah, I forgot about inittab, I think I edited that when I was fiddling with some other stuff, though. I tend to forget the names and locations of various config files, so I often opt for a GUI setting instead (hey, I told you I was a noob