On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 08:57:12AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > I remebered earlier posting to the effect that it was necessary to get > the drivers for Gefore4 form nvidia so I downloaded > NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.tar.gz and NVIDIA_kernel-1.0.3123.tar.gz and ran tar > xvzf on each of them. Unpacking GLX failed with the message that gzip > had encountered an unexpected end-of-file. I repeated the download and > tried again with the same result. I repeated the download with an > earlier posting of these files and tried again with the same result.
You're using Netscape? It silently decompresses files without changing the extension. 'tar -xvf file.tar' should work. Also, have you had a look at nvidia-kernel-src and nvidia-glx-src? They automate most of the stuff required to get the NVidia drivers working. -rob
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