Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (321 mails)

["Paul C. Leopardi" <leopardi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,
Kudos to SUSE. See below.
Best regards

On Saturday 03 July 2004 12:54, Paul C. Leopardi wrote:
..
> After installing kernel-syms-2.6.5-7.95, I logged in as root, changed to
> runlevel 3, changed directory to where I had downloaded the nVIDIA
> installer and
> 1) Ran
> . ./makeflags-SUSE.README.sh, containing the line:
>
> export MAKEFLAGS= \
> "-C /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build O=/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build"
>
> 2) Ran
> ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-6106-pkg2.run --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux
>
> The install worked.
..
> SuSE could write an article for the Support Database, describing the
> problem and its solution.
>
> Finally, at some stage, SuSE should take a look at changing the precompiled
> interface from 1.0-5332 to 1.0-6106, and changing the YOU download script
> to match. Probably for SuSE 9.2?

SUSE has updated their nVIDIA installer HOWTO to include info on 1.0-6106.
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/nvidia-installer-HOWTO

Since I have already successfully installed 1.0-6106, I haven't tried any of 
the methods listed, so I don't know if any of them also need export MAKEFLAGS 
as per 1) above. 

Thanks to Thomas Hertweck for pointing me to the HOWTO.