Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[Alvaro Kuolas <kuolas@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.
>
>   
I have a TNT2M64. You must use the 1.0-7174.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-7174.html

Read the SuSE NVIDIA Installer HOWTO
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/nvidia-installer-HOWTO
before downloading the driver.*
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/nvidia-installer-HOWTO

There is a scrip for creating the devices on the driver. Put it on
/etc/rc.d/boot.local.