Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ken Schneider wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 12:38 -0300, Shawn Holland wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 May 2006 12:13 pm, Shawn Holland wrote:
> > > WARNING: The NVIDIA GeForce2 Ti GPU installed in this system is supported
> > >          through the NVIDIA legacy Linux graphics drivers.  Please visit
> > >          http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more information.  The
> > >          1.0-8756 NVIDIA Linux graphics driver will ignore this GPU.
> > >
> > >
> > > So I think that this may be the cause of all my problems in getting the
> > > nvidia drivers. Which will hopefully solve my possitioning problem :)
> > >
> > > It's interesting that they would drop support for older video cards in
> > > newer drivers. But will see. So now to figure out what lagacy driver to get
> > > *sigh*
> > Ok well I've downloaded the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7676-pkg1.run which as per 
> > its readme file supports my card.
> >
> > Yet durring installation I get the same error that it does not support it and 
> > to use a legacy driver.
> >
> > I also get an error about nvidia.ko cannot be compiled because of an invalid 
> > kernel-source specified. I used both the sym link /usr/src/linux and the 
> > direct path /usr/src/linux-2.6.13-15/
> >
> > I think I'm gonna start crying :P
> Make sure that you also (as root):
>
> cd /usr/src/linux
> make cloneconfig
> make prepare-all
>
> before trying to compile the Nvidia driver.

Interesting. I've never had to do this.

Is this necessary only because of the legacy driver involved?

Cheers.




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