Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (894 mails)

[Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 02:48:30PM -0700, Robert Lewis wrote:
> Stefan Dirsch wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 09:56:47PM -0500, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
> >   
> > > > I will write later about my experience with installing 11.0
> > > > on a desktop machine that users an nvidia card.  It will be
> > > > about user complexity in trying to figure out which of the
> > > > nvidia entries are correct as I obviously choose the wrong
> > > > one and lost my graphics.
> > > >       
> > > There are two choices ( http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA ): recent and
> > > legacy cards. Just check the card list and select the appropriate
> > > driver :-)
> > >     
> >
> > Since openSUSE 11.0 this is no longer necessary. The appropriate
> > NVIDIA packages will be autoselected by YaST2 right after adding the
> > repo. If no additional packages are autoselected, your card is not
> > supported by the driver (RPMs). So this is - thanks to the community
> > repo list - now as easy as the 1-click-install and much more safer.
> >   
> Hi Stefan:
>
> That was all good news.  However, it isn't working for me here
> and failing.  Everything is fine with "nv" driver though.  Maybe I
> should try compiling the "nvidia" driver and installing but would
> prefer not to.  I do know how to do it though.

Unfortunately you need to due to Bug #390272, which has been
classified as blocker. Still I was right.

"If no additional packages are autoselected, your card is not
 supported by the driver (RPMs)."
                          ^^^^

Best regards,
Stefan

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