On Friday 31 August 2007 06:53:19 am Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Rajko M.
[08-31-07 07:30]: Although someone removed advice for; cd /usr/src/linux make oldconfig make prepare from article http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA in my experience, nvidia installer will not work without at least first 2 lines, ie, changing working directory to /usr/src/linux and than copy of current configuration: cd /usr/src/linux make oldconfig the only line that last version of nvidia installer didn't really needed was 'make prepare' . I added that too, just to make sure that every possible effort is made to have all bits ready.
The guy that removed above 3 commands from article is, so far I know, one of kernel developers, and I don't go in discussion what is right, the SUSE kernel or nvidia installer creators.
I have not ever found those steps necessary when installing NVidia's package, just " sh ./NVIDIA-Linux....run -a" from runlevel 3, then return to runlevel 5.
I know that when I started to compile nvidia drivers it was not necessary to run any of above commands. Than someone asked for advice, and I pointed to article. Than he came again with error that I wasn't able to see before, so I checked, and it worked for me, but my kernel sources are usually configured, as nvidia is not only reason that I have them. After removing kernel sources, installing and trying again I found out that it doesn't work as before and put advice online. That is whole story. -- Regards, Rajko. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org