Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4054 mails)

[Peter Nikolic <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 16 January 2006 16:01, Jonathan Brooks wrote:
> Hi Roger/Kenneth,
>
> Thanks for your replies - I installed the driver manually. Using the
> instructions on Nvidia's website for SuSE 10. I guess there must be
> something that gets set when using the Yast method of installation for
> 3Ddiag to work, since there are no errors in Xorg.0.log to say that the
> driver is not installed.
>
> Is the Yast method of installation the only way to ensure that things
> remain consistent?
>
> Cheers, Jon.
>
> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 11:31 +0000, Jonathan Brooks wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have an Nvidia 6200 Turbocache card installed on an Nforce4 mobo, with
> >> the latest Nforce/Nvidia drivers on SuSE 10 x86_64. I used to be able to
> >> run OpenGL screensavers, but no more. What can be wrong?
> >
> > How did you install the nvidia drivers?
>
> --
> Jonathan Brooks (Ph.D.)
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> Department of Human Anatomy & Genetics,
> University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QX
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It has been my experience that the yast way is the way that consistantley 
FAILS hopelessly every time so i do it by hand without any problems at all 
providing the Entire kernel is installed not just the binaries ..

Pete .

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