On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 10:47, dries wrote:
Is there a way for me to download the nVidia drivers at work (fast internet) and then use yast online update on a file at home so i don't have to download the (6MB) driver at home ??
I tried the online update thing to see how well it worked with 9.1, because it didn't work too well for me in 9.0. It didn't work well this time either. However, I don't think you'll have any trouble doing it the "hard" way. Just go to nVidia's site and download the driver for ia32, and run it as root. (Make sure that you have all the build tools installed, as it needs to relink to the current kernel.) After that, just use SaX2 as usual, but don't worry about checking off the "3D Acceleration" button. Just leave that alone. When you're done, edit /etc/X11/XF86Config, and change the driver that your card uses from "nv" to "nvidia". You should be all set. As to it not working well. Using the downloadable update does indeed pick the "right" driver (nvidia) for use during configurating with SaX2. At work, I have a dual-head config, and SaX2 could NOT see that. I could only have one monitor. At home, I do NOT have a dual-head config, and SaX2 refused to do anything but a dual-head config. On top of this, it started up and showed me screen TWO, where there was a nice message that the config was actually showing on screen ONE! I dug out my DVI-to-VGA converter, but THERE WAS NOTHING COMING OVER THE DVI PORT! Argh! The online update nvidia tool completely blew it on both of my nvidia-equipped machines. Is there any way to undo this install so that SaX2 no longer has any idea about the real "nvidia" driver, and simply uses the built-in "nv" driver? That way I could comfortably go back to the manual method I describe above. Thanks, dk