Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (824 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rajko M. wrote:
> On Friday 31 August 2007 06:53:19 am Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > * Rajko M. <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx> [08-31-07 07:30]:
> > > Although someone removed advice for;
> > >    cd /usr/src/linux
> > >    make oldconfig
> > >    make prepare
> > > from article
> > >   http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA
> > > in my experience, nvidia installer will not work without at least first 2
> > > lines, ie, changing working directory to /usr/src/linux and than copy of
> > > current configuration:
> > >    cd /usr/src/linux
> > >    make oldconfig
> > > the only line that last version of nvidia installer didn't really needed
> > > was 'make prepare' . I added that too, just to make sure that every
> > > possible effort is made to have all bits ready.
> > >
> > > The guy that removed above 3 commands from article is, so far I know, one
> > > of kernel developers, and I don't go in discussion what is right, the
> > > SUSE kernel or nvidia installer creators.
> > I have not ever found those steps necessary when installing NVidia's
> > package, just " sh ./NVIDIA-Linux....run -a" from runlevel 3, then
> > return to runlevel 5.
>
> I know that when I started to compile nvidia drivers it was not necessary to 
> run any of above commands. 
>
> Than someone asked for advice, and I pointed to article. 
> Than he came again with error that I wasn't able to see before, so I checked, 
> and it worked for me, but my kernel sources are usually configured, as nvidia 
> is not only reason that I have them. After removing kernel sources, 
> installing and trying again I found out that it doesn't work as before and 
> put advice online.  
>
> That is whole story. 
>  

Occasionally the kernel changes also and there is a patch available from 
the NVidia forum for 2.6.22 to build NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.11-pkg2 
or pkg1 for x86.
"patch-change-recent-kernel-2.6.22-nvidia-100.14.11.txt".
Although NVidia are very responsive, they do make it a bit difficult 
especially for inexperienced users to get 3D working. With ATI on the 
other hand, I've only ever got 2 releases to build, along comes a kernel 
or xorg change and it can be almost a year before they'll react, yet you 
read how hard at work they are providing a Linux driver.
The situation is likely to persist as the drivers are proprietary and 
they have development cycles that are exceedingly long. The kernel moves 
at a fast pace to improve and as Linus said "Linux is Evolution, not 
Intelligent Design", the latter hardly ever changes over a five year 
life cycle, the Linux kernel changes daily.

Regards
Sid.
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