Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2009 mails)

[MDCleary@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Cleary, Mike)]

Had lots of problems trying to upgrade the nvidia drivers.

Currently running SuSE 6.4,  Xfree86 - 4.01, and the
0.94 build of the nvidia drivers.  

I saw that there were some SuSE 6.4 rpms of the new 0.95
nvidia drivers & figured that it would be trivial to upgrade.  The
kernel driver apparently installed fine (at least it said so: "Nvdriver
installed successfully", or something like that).  The glx driver
had some problems finding some of the libglx.o files (which was
odd since I currently had the .94 drivers installed).  In any case
X wouldn't start - I could not get past the "unresolved symbol
tqueue_lock error" .  So I downloaded the tarballs and tried
to proceed from there.

The Nvdriver would not build - I kept getting messages about i840 being
undeclared, or something like that.

So I went back to the .94 tarballs and built them with no problems (except
for
 few "unresolved symbols " when building the glx drivers - but I believe I
had seen these the first time I installed .94, and it did not seem to cause
any problems).  I then was able to start X just fine.  Also, I ran
"ssystem  - - bench"  which worked fine as well.  

Any ideas why .94 works but .95 won't build?  Any hints would be 
greatly appreciated.  

TIA,

Mike
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