[opensuse-factory] Re: nvidia drivers on Factory?
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 01:52:03AM +0100, Christian Boltz wrote:
Hello,
I just updated from 11.3 to factory and wanted to compile the nvidia drivers. However, I get (nvidia-installer.log):
ERROR: Unable to determine the version of the kernel sources located in '/lib/modules/2.6.37-rc7-desktop/source'. Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your kernel and that they are properly configured; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' or 'kernel-devel' RPM installed. If you know the correct kernel source files are installed, you may specify the kernel source path with the '--kernel-source-path' command line option.
Sure that kernel-desktop*, kernel-devel, kernel-source all have the same version and release numbers and the currently running kernel has the same version and release number too?
Google pointed me to http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=142794 but even with the patch from there I get the same error message.
Sounds completely unrelated.
My graphics card is a GeForce 8600M GS, and the nvidia website gave me NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.36-pkg2.run for download.
Why are you using this driver version? Please use this as reference: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606 Best regards, Stefan Public Key available ------------------------------------------------------ Stefan Dirsch (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Tel: 0911-740 53 0 Maxfeldstraße 5 FAX: 0911-740 53 479 D-90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Hello, on Friday 07 January 2011, Stefan Dirsch wrote:
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 01:52:03AM +0100, Christian Boltz wrote:
Sure that kernel-desktop*, kernel-devel, kernel-source all have the same version and release numbers and the currently running kernel has the same version and release number too?
Yes.
My graphics card is a GeForce 8600M GS, and the nvidia website gave me NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-185.18.36-pkg2.run for download.
Why are you using this driver version?
*argh* good question - looks like I should cleanup my downlaod directory. This file was "slightly" outdated. The fresh download from the nvidia website was newer, but...
Please use this as reference:
... this one was even newer - and works :-) Thanks for the pointer! For the records: I also got the "nv" driver to work with dualhead (starts up in clone mode at KDM login, then I was able to configure it to dualhead mode in KDE. The trick was to remove my xorg.conf. Regards, Christian Boltz -- Mit wine läuft ständig irgendwas jetzt endlich, während irgendwas anderes nicht mehr läuft. In dieser Hinsicht emuliert es Windows perfekt... :-) [Ratti in fontlinge-devel] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Am Freitag, 7. Januar 2011, 21:17:35 schrieb Christian Boltz:
For the records: I also got the "nv" driver to work with dualhead (starts up in clone mode at KDM login, then I was able to configure it to dualhead mode in KDE. The trick was to remove my xorg.conf.
Just to clarify, this is not the nv driver doing more then it's natural capabilities but the nouveau driver, this is the default driver for xorg now, unless it finds nvidia. nv is only used for very old gpu's i think. Regards, Karsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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