Installing proprietary video card drivers
From Mandriva Community Wiki
This page contains information on how to install a proprietary driver for NVIDIA and ATI graphics cards, if you installed Mandriva in such a way that it was not automatically done for you at install time.
Instructions
- Add the official software repositories as per the instructions here.
- If you are running Mandriva Linux 2008 then after adding the repositories make sure to enable the non-free and the non-free updates repositories using the repository configuration tool, which you can access from the Mandriva Control Center or from rpmdrake. There should be two check marks beside the non-free updates in order to enable it as an update repository.
- Open the Mandriva Control Center (aka Configure Your Computer): open Menu > Run Command and type mcc. Press Enter then enter your root password when prompted and press Enter again.
- Go to Hardware > Set up the graphical server > Graphics Card.
- Reselect your display card group - the correct one will very likely already be selected, so just re-select the group that is already selected if you are unsure.
- You will get this message: There is a proprietary driver available for your video card which may support additional features. Do you wish to use it?. simply click Yes.
- If you are running Mandriva Linux 2008 then after the installation process completes make sure that the Enable RENDER Acceleration option is checked.
- Now log out then log back in.
Troubleshooting
If you are not given the option of using a proprietary driver for your card, it is possible the card is a very new one, and was not supported by the proprietary drivers at the time the release of Mandriva you are using came out. In this case, you can try updating to a newer version of the driver.
