[Nottingham] Re: lost kde after changing display settings

[Peter Woods]

Sarah Swindell wrote:

>
> How do I know which Kernal (sic) I'm on?
> Also I only can do "apt - get" as Root - I thought that you weren't 
> meant to connect to the internet as Root as it was dangerous?
>

As far as Nvidia installer is concerned, it will go to the web to try 
for a known version of the kernel you are using.
If it can't find one, it will compile what it requires for itself. This 
means you have to have the development software for your distro, 
including kernel headers. Yes that sounds complicated, but I did it 
through Mandrake rpms, which is equivalent to APT.

To be truthfull, I am currently running without Nvidia drivers, because 
I couldn't be bothered (when I installed Mandriva what's it called) but 
there is another new driver (as of ~22June) so I will go off and fit it now.

Pete