-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday October 13 2003 00:05, James Ogley wrote:
Does anyone know of any issues that have to do with the SUSE LINUX Professional 9 and NVidia driver, and what versions of the NVidia drivers will work with it?
Given that the nVidia drivers are packaged up as an executable installer now, rather than as RPMs, I would guess the latest version will probably install just fine when YOU downloads it at the end of the install. -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2). GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org
Ok, at the SuSE ftp site, in the supplementary/XFree86 directory is a howto file that give directions on how to do this. I had to goto great lengths during beta testing to get this work at first. But after the updates/fixes is was much easier. Furthermore, the config of 3rd party modules has been changed to accomodate stuff like the nvidia drivers and kernel updates in order to make it easier to actually update the kernel without destroying the mods such as these so you won't have to continually reinstall the drivers. How well it works I couldn't say because the info was not completed when I was testing. From: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/ nvidia-installer-HOWTO: A. SuSE Linux 9.0 - ----------------- 1) Kernel sources must be installed and configured. Usually this means installing the 'kernel-source' package with YaST2. 2) Use the nvidia installer. sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run 3) Save the binary-part of nvidia kernel module, so the nvidia kernel module can be re-linked during a kernel update and therefore the nvidia driver installation will survive a future kernel update as well. sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run --extract-only cp NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv-kernel.o \ /lib/modules/scripts/nvidia/nv-kernel.o-1.0-4496 4) Enable 3D support with SaX2. I am a bit niffed about the new website on this matter insofar as previously one could look at a breakdown of packages for "professionals" on the SuSE product page. So far I have not seen this in the new website format - essentially little if any info other than market crap is on it - PITY (or should I say PITA). So, looking into info about how the new kernal mods/3rd party mods are handle, at least on a rudimentary level, is accessible AFAIK. HTH, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ilauiqnGhdjCOJsRAktNAJwNcwU+eTIXtfgCUnInQR0GLzqZ9wCfWYtv zSGsJsWNjTK+d2R6lajMrv0= =APe6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----