Tony Alfrey wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2008-03-31 at 03:43 -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:
I've seen the instructions on the nvidia site and it looks like I need to compile a kernel. Did you find this to be true?
No, you don't.
You may need to have the kernel sources installed, with configuration equal to the running kernel (make cloneconfig prepare, I think). The nvidia installer will compile a kernel module if it needs it - never the entire kernel. And not you, but "him".
I was hoping to find some YAST-like solution that might allow me to install the driver as a module. I'm avoiding the kernel route because I cannot afford (right now) to break this installation.
Check if these instructions are still here:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/nvidia-installer-HOWTO
I think I have seen it somewhere on the wiki.
Thanks Carlos and Dave. I found this installer guide http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html because the ftp site above downloaded an empty file. These documents talk about the typical x86 chips and an AMD64 but I have an AMD Athlon XP2800+ and there are two installers for the legacy chipsets, one called NVIDIA-Linux-x86-71.86.01-pkg1.run
which looks like a x86 version and
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-71.86.01-pkg2.run
which looks like the AMD64 version.
Do you suppose that the installer will tell me if it can't find the correct source against which to compile the module?
You are correct the x86_64 package is for the AMD64, I had an XP2400+ by the way and it works fine. If you have everything installed from the 9.1 disk, you won't have a problem. If you have upgraded your kernel you may have a problem with your gcc version, it has to be the same as your installed kernel was compiled with. There are instructions specific to suse on the nvidia site. The file you use depends on your nvidia graphics card model. There are three different ones, one for legacy cards, one for current cards and one for onboard nvidia graphics. Read all the instructions on the site and you shouldn't have any problems at all. You only need to rerun if you change your kernel. regards Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org