Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5130 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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