Installing video card drivers in Mandrake 8.2

[Evil-Lab-Monkey]

I'm trying to install the latest drivers for my video card in Mandrake 8.2. I've got an Abit Siluro GeForce 4 ti 4400. I've downloaded these two files from Nvidias site:

NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180.tar.gz
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4180.tar.gz

These are the instructions in the readme:

INSTALLING/UPGRADING BY TAR FILE

Instructions for the Impatient:

$ tar xvzf NVIDIA_kernel.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf NVIDIA_GLX.tar.gz
$ cd NVIDIA_kernel
$ make install
$ cd ../NVIDIA_GLX
$ make install

Instructions:

To install from tar file, unpack each file:

$ tar xvzf NVIDIA_kernel.tar.gz
$ tar xvzf NVIDIA_GLX.tar.gz

cd into the NVIDIA_kernel directory. Type 'make install'. This will
compile the kernel interface to the NVIDIA kernel module, link it,
copy it into place, and attempt to load it into the running kernel:

$ cd NVIDIA_kernel
$ make install

Next, move into the NVIDIA_GLX directory. Type 'make install' -- this
will copy the needed OpenGL and XFree86 files into place:

$ cd ../NVIDIA_GLX
$ make install

Note that the "make install" for each package will remove any previously installed NVIDIA drivers.

This is what I did:

[michael@mybox michael]$ tar xvzf NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4180.tar.gz
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4180/
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4180/nv.c
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4180/nv.h
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4180/os-interface.c
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4180/os-interface.h
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4180/os-registry.c
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4180/Makefile
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4180/README
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4180/os-agp.c
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4180/os-agp.h
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4180/nv-misc.h
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4180/rmretval.h
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4180/nv-kernel.o
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4180/makedevices.sh
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4180/nvtypes.h
NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4180/nv-linux.h
[michael@mybox michael]$ tar xvzf NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180.tar.gz
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/lib/
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/lib/libGL.so.1.0.4180
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.4180
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/X11R6/
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/X11R6/lib/
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so.1.0.4180
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/share/
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/share/doc/
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_Changelog
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/share/doc/README.DE
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/share/doc/README
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/share/doc/XF86Config.sample
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/share/doc/license.txt
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/include/
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/include/GL/
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/include/GL/glxtokens.h
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/include/GL/gl.h
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/usr/include/GL/glx.h
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4180/Makefile
[michael@mybox michael]$ cd NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4180
[michael@mybox NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4180]$ make install
bash: make: command not found

now what? I've tried looking around at the files it extracted but I have no clue what any of them are. There is one called "Makefile" that's probably the key but I don't know what to do with it. Typing Makefile in the console doesn't do anything.

[TMAN]

you need to install some of the dev tools. Look on the CD for make, automake, autoconf, gcc, and gdb (not necessary but useful). The only one you need at this stage is make but since it wasn't installed I be you need the rest too.

[Evil-Lab-Monkey]

thanks, I'll try that and let you know