On 05/17/2012 03:21 PM, Philipp Thomas wrote:
On 05/17/2012 03:15 AM, george olson wrote:
Why don't you use the driver rpm available? You just have to add the nvidia software repository.
That is certainly easier than downloading the driver from nvidia and doing it manually, although the manual method was a great learning experience.
You can try and use opensuse nvidia repository and make sure the driver works from there
Why shouldn't it? It's built from the same sources.
A good question, and I am sure the answer is beyond my understanding. Nevertheless, when I installed the proprietary nvidia driver from the opensuse nvidia repository, my system froze up and became useless when I tried to enable desktop effects. So I installed the proprietary driver from the nvidia website that matches my card, and now my system works wonderfully. It is good that we have all the options available, one of the things I really like about moving over to openSUSE from windows.
you can try to install the nouveau driver, which is happily used by many people here,
Which lacks many features of the proprietary driver.
which will require a kernel rebuild
It doesn't! You only need to build the driver module, nothing else!
Yes you are correct - driver module only, not the whole kernel. Thanks :)
Philipp
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