On Sunday 18 April 2004 21:19, Keith Roberts wrote:
When I use the nvidia-installer it always compiles the nvidia kernel-driver interface for me, as no other options are found, even though I use the standard SuSE 8.1 k_deflt kernel.
Right, according to the README, for suse versions 8.1 and below, they are supposed to provide RPMs. And there is one for the 2.4.19 kernel at ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-5336/ although there doesn't seem to be one for the new 2.4.21 kernel but the advise seems a bit confused, since they seem to say both to install the rpm *and* run the installer, which seems a bit redundant. Anyways, note that the README suggests that the nvidia installer isn't intended to work with 8.1, which is as you discovered yourself <quote> III. SuSE Linux 8.1 United Linux 1.0 (UL1) SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 (SLES8) ------------------------------------------- 1) Download the according 'NVIDIA_GLX' and 'NVIDIA_kernel' RPMs for 1.0-5336 from nvidia ftp server and install these with the following commands: rpm --justdb -Uhv NVIDIA_kernel*.rpm rpm -Uhv NVIDIA_GLX*.rpm Use "ul1" packages for UL1/SLES8. 2) Kernel sources must be installed and configured. Usually this means installing the 'kernel-source' package with YaST2, update it - if not already done - via YaST2 Online Update (YOU) and configure it then with the following commands: cd /usr/src/linux make cloneconfig && make dep 3) Download nvidia installer for 1.0-5336 and extract it with the following command: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run --extract-only 4) Compile and install the nvidia kernel module with the following commands: cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1/usr/src/nv make install depmod -a 5) Enable 3D support with SaX2. </quote>