Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1233 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Putrycz, Erik wrote:
> > Quentin Jackson wrote:
> >     
> > > May be old news to some, but new news to me :)
> > >
> > > For those of you that like to play video on your machine and have
> > >       
> NVIDIA
>   
> > > cards (not legacy ones) the latest Nvidia driver (1.80.06) has
> > >       
> support
>   
> > > for what they're calling VDPAU which is apparently basically a unix
> > > implementation of PureVideo which has until now been available on
> > > Windows only as I understand it.  The end result is much less CPU
> > >       
> usage
>   
> > > while running it with something such as mplayer-vdpau.
> > >
> > >       
>
> Btw, is there any easy way to install the Nvidia drivers for the current
> factory version? I guess the "official" Nvidia RPMs are coming later?
>   

There is nothing easier to install nVidia drivers for ANY version of
openSUSE than doing following:

* make sure that you have 'kernel-source', 'make', and 'gcc' installed;

* download the nVidia driver from nVidia site
[http://www.nvidia.com/page/home.html];

* CTRL-ALT-F3 and login as root;

* then "cd /usr/src/linux" and then "make cloneconfig";

* init 3 and login as root (again);

* cd to the directory into which you downloaded the new nVidia driver;

* "nvidia-installer --uninstall" to get rid of the present driver (if
there is one - still do this even if you do or don't know if one is
installed [some will tell you to use "rmmod nvidia" but this doesn't
always work]);

* "sh NVIDIA<tab> [to get the full name of the latest driver] --- <RETURN>;

* respond to the prompts which come up, and after SAX2 has altered your
xorg.conf file....

* type "init 5" and login normally into your system.

Piece of cake.


Ciao.


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