Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-multimedia (27 mails)

[Bogi Mouritsen <bogi@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks that brought me a bit further. Unfortunantly I'm not quite there yet.

I removed kernel sources, installed them again, ran YOU and rebooted.
I then followed the instructions stated below (make cloneconfig, make 
prepare-all, init 3 and ran the nvidia-installer again) which brought me 
to a position where the installer warned me that "rivafb" was included 
as a loadable module and that that might cause conflicts. I proceeded 
and the installer terminated cleanly. I ran Sax2 which detected  me 
NVidia 0x0281 card. I started X and proceeded to Sax2 in graphical mode 
to enable 3D acceleration. I ran the "test" which gave the following:
   X Server test failed
   NVIDIA(0): *** aborting ***
   Screen(s) found, but none have usable configuration

What's next?

I really appreciate your efforts by the way.

:)Bogi

Adalberto Castelo wrote:

> Bogi,
>
> Here's what you need:
>
> 1) install the kernel source rpm from SuSE.
> 2) go to /usr/src/linux (where the source should be when you use the suse 
> rpms) and type
> 	$ make cloneconfig
> 	This will make sure that the config file used by make to create dependencies 
> will match your current kernel's config.
> 3) type
> 	$ make prepare-all
> 4) make sure your system is in init 3 (go to a terminal and type init 3 as 
> root, or type '3' on the suse splash screen that shows the boot menu (kernel, 
> safe mode, etc.)
> 5) go back to where you have the .run pkg, type
> 	$ sh NVIDIA-etc-etc.run --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux
>
> I assume you can set up the XConfig file or have one already working.
>
> Now, do not mess with what is in /lib, unless you know what you're doing. And 
> do not use kernel sources that do not match you kernel perfectly.
>
> That should get you going. Good luck.
>
>
> On Sunday 30 January 2005 05:59, Bogi Mouritsen wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have an NVIVIA Geforce 4000 (as far as I remember), and I have had
> > trouble with it through several SuSE installations. However I have
> > always managed to get it to work and it works just peachy when I need to
> > use Windows.
> >
> > I just installed 9.2 and to no surprise YOU couldn't install the driver
> > so I tried to install it using the .run file from nvidia-com. After
> > going into "init 3" this is what I get:
> > 1. My system does not find a precompiled kernel interface, so it tries
> > to download one from nvidia.com. There is no one there either.
> > 2. When trying to make a kernel interface I get an error stating that
> > the kernel header file
> > /lib/modules/2.6.8-24.11-default/build/include/linux/kernel.h was not
> > found. This could be due to kernel-src not being installed, so I
> > installed the additional package.
> > 3. Tried again and after additional errors I found that kernel.h was in
> > another directory.
> > 4. ran "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run --kernel-source-path
> > /usr/src/linux-2.6.8-24/include".
> > 5. Finally I get: ERROR: unable to build NVIDIA kernel module.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > :)Bogi
> >