Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3261 mails)

[Tim Hanson <tjhanson@xxxxxxxx>]

Tor Sigurdsson wrote:
> 
> For the interested, there is an update to the nvidia drivers in the 7.1 package
> to be found on nvidias website ( http://www.nvidia.com ) If you install it in
> textmode while the "Will now boot your computer" dialogue is showing ( in the
> install phase ) then you can select glx/3D acceleration in the GUI selection,
> without worrying of crashing your computer.
> 
> -tosi

Okay, that finally did the trick.  I went to the nvidia website:
 
http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html

and downloaded the three files:

NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769.suse71.i386.rpm
NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769.suse71.i386.rpm
README.suse71

They are specific to SuSE 7.0 vs. SuSE 7.1, and are toward the bottom of
the page, under the Red Hat and Mandrake downloads.  I made a short
script out of the README file and installed the drivers.  Finally,
following the directions at the SuSe support site:
  
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/wengel_glx_nv.html

I added the following line to my Modules section of /etc/X11/XF86Config
:

Load 	"glx"

That came up with no hanging and no error messages.

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