Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 15:12, Thies Eggers wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> Carlos E. R. said the following on 07/02/05 21:29:
> > Did you run YOU? Did you install kernel 2.6.5-7.145?
> > 
> > If you use nvidia, it is broken. Read thread "update problem", there are 
> > instructions there.
> > 
> > Also, you probably should run mk_initrd, on my system it did not run, and 
> > failed to load ramdisk.
> 
> My system works fine now with the kernel mentioned above (2.6.5-7.145) 
> and newly compiled nvidia modules (as described in Sunny's mail). Just a 
> lucky case or will it break down sooner or later ?!?
> 
> Currently my ASUS V9570 LE/TD works fine with 1280*1024 and also 3D is 
> supported (at least Tuxracer works ;-)).
> 
> Cheers, TiE

This is fine if you want to compile the driver yourself every time you
update the kernel. The driver was automatically installed with the
kernel downloads before, as what is in the /lib/modules/precompiled
folder. It may not always be the latest as on the Nvidia site but it
works.

I pity the new users who don't have a clue and get pissed when things
like this make the system unusable to them.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998

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