On 12/10/10 07:15, Bogdan Cristea wrote:

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Hello SuSE people,

Guess I haven't been paying attention. Has there been a kernel update for 11.3 since it came out? Right now I am running 2.6.34.7-0.5-desktop.

I am not happy about the performance opf 11.3 right now. I've read in several threads that people have upgraded the kernel to 2.6.35 and have had better results but Iam reluctant to go into HEAD and just download a later version.

Bob S For me the desktop is unusable after updates, with the latest nvidia drivers and with the default kernel. There is a kernel:stable repo for openSUSE

On Friday 10 December 2010 07:27:25 Bob S wrote: providing kernel 2.6.36.1. I have installed and compiled the sources from this repo and now everything is fine.

I use latest KOTD kernel and latest Nvidia drivers like this: after installation of new kernel, but before reboot, I run: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.21 -K -k 2.6.37-rc5-16-default (of course, put your version numbers, I just did copy/paste from todays history) and get nvidia kernel module installed. After reboot, everything works like it should. Siniša -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 14:22, Mark Misulich wrote:

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I use latest KOTD kernel and latest Nvidia drivers like this:

after installation of new kernel, but before reboot, I run:

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.21 -K -k 2.6.37-rc5-16-default (of course, put your version numbers, I just did copy/paste from todays history)

and get nvidia kernel module installed. After reboot, everything works like it should.

Siniša

Is the actual bash command

./sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.21 -K -k 2.6.37-rc5-16-default

and which directory does this reside in so that one may cd to the correct directory?

In which directory did you save the NVIDIA installer? There is no way anyone here can answer that question. You have to download the video driver off the nVidia website... if you use Firefox, and default settings, it's likely to be /home/$USER/Downloads... assuming you didn't move the video driver somewhere else... like I did. Basically, you cd to wherever you stored the downloaded video driver. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 08:22 -0500, Mark Misulich wrote:

Is the actual bash command

./sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.21 -K -k 2.6.37-rc5-16-default

I am guessing this is not going to work with a file as downloaded from nvidia. There is the stdarg.h madness that seems never to go away... /usr/src/linux-2.6.37-rc3-git1-6/include/linux/kernel.h:12:20: fatal error: stdarg.h: No such file or directory -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 SHAW'S PRINCIPAL Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 12:51 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Roger Oberholtzer [12-12-10 12:42]:

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I am guessing this is not going to work with a file as downloaded from nvidia. There is the stdarg.h madness that seems never to go away...

That is the *files* that it does work with.

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/usr/src/linux-2.6.37-rc3-git1-6/include/linux/kernel.h:12:20: fatal error: stdarg.h: No such file or directory

you need to have kernel-source-2.6.37-rc3-git1-6.noarch installed, or whatever kernel-source-#### that matches your kernel. The nvidia compiler is looking for the kernel header files contained in the kernel-source package.

This is what I do not understand. There is no stdarg.h file in the kernel source. At least not in the one I have installed. On 11.4 it is kernel-source-2.6.37-6.1.noarch. On 11.2 and 11.3 it is whatever is the kernel-source for the running kernel. No stdarg.h in those. It has been this way on 11.2, 11.3 and 11.4. What do you get for: rpm -qa kernel-source-2.6.37-rc3-git1-6.noarch | grep stdarg.h I get nothing. Because it is not in the kernel source. I even downloaded a kernel source from kernel.org to be sure. No stdarg.h file. So I think it is in some other package that you have installed. Note that the stdarg.h files that are installed with the GNU compilers are (on my system): /usr/include/c++/4.5/tr1/stdarg.h /usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.5/include/stdarg.h I also have these for cross-compiling: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/4.5.1/include/c++/tr1/stdarg.h /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/4.5.1/include/stdarg.h /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/stdarg.h But the compile is not looking there. The command line to compile the kernel module is in the nvidia .run file. I have this same problem with vmware.

works for me(!TM).

I suspect because of some other reason than the one you think is making it work. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 SHAW'S PRINCIPAL Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org