Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3378 mails)

[John <jfmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:19:56 -0700, you wrote:

>::Get the drivers, install them with "rpm -Uhv --nodeps --force", and if the 
>::links in /usr/lib ( /usr/lib/libGL* ) don't point to the nvidia glx 
>::sharedlibs, then run switch2nvidia_glx. Make sure again that the libs aren't
>::pointing to some mesa lib...
>
>
>I don't have much of an issue with the instructions below, but if you
>want to make sure everything is kosher then I would do this.
>
>Get the 2880 tar.gz files from http://www.nvidia.com/drivers then put
>them in /usr/src/packages/SOURCES.
>
>You should then just untar them like this...
>
>tar -zxvf <tar file name>

Guys thanks for specific instructions on how to approach this. With
Suse 8.0 in another week is it likely that Suse will recognize this
card. Or should I get use to this procedure because of the nVidia
license issue. I guess I'm trying to put off the inevitable, trouble
is my gray hair count is getting high and was hoping to save some.

Thanks..........John