On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:35:09 -0400, "David W. Hodgins"
wrote:

I've been setting up a new system with a card shown by lspci as
nVidia Corporation G94 [GeForce 9600 GT] (rev a1)

Running Mandriva linux 2009.1, I tried all of the nvidia kernel
options from the Mandriva repositories, as well as the various
options from the nvidia website, but had problems with video
corruption, and/or lockups/crashes.

Try the driver for nVidia Geforce 6100 and later. This seem to work
for me when I put 9400 card in. I alway check XFdrake after boot up.