Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Shawn Holland wrote:
> On Sunday 21 May 2006 10:56 pm, Basil Chupin wrote:
> > Why do you create unnecessary hassles for yourself? :-). No need for the
> > path statement which you may get wrong.
> >
> > What I do, as root, is create a Temp0 directory then put the nVidia
> > driver into it. Then I do the telinit 3 thing and enter this Temp0
> > directory where I then type sh NVIDIA....run  and away it all goes- and
> > the driver is compiled!
> >
> > [rest pruned]
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> >
> > --
> > All answers questioned here.
>
> Everytime I try to install without --kernel-source-path it fails because the 
> path that is implied by default is incorrect. 

Something not right here.... Do you have a standard installation of 
SuSE, from their CDs or DVD, or is it some "roll your own" version? (I 
have forgotten but which version do you have installed?) I have NEVER 
had a problem with paths not being correct.

Cheers.


--
All answers questioned here.