On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 07:47 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 08 August 2008 01:53:46 am Mike McMullin wrote:
I have tried to install the nVidia drivers using nVidia's install program, but it fails (specific info not provided). I've also tried to install the nVidia drivers through the nVidia repository with no luck. Currently my i386 system has two types of kernels installed (by the installer): 2.6.25.11-0.1-default and 2.6.2511-0.1-pae, and the pae is set as the boot default for 11.0, again by the installer. So has anyone gotten the nVidia drivers to install (they worked on 10.2 and 10.3 on this system)?
I did, and no problems. As it is mentioned in http://en.opensuse.org/nvidia precompiled drivers will work as long as changes in kernel are not very large (the application binary interface, or ABI, is the same), but that and more is explained there.
One important thing is that if you install precompiled one from repository included in YaST, you have to deinstall it first, than install the one that has to be compiled. The same is valid for opposite way.
The 2 kernels installed? If it is so without your help, than it is bug. http://bugzilla.novell.com and report it.
Yes, it installed a second kernel. I nuked the install and redid it (2 times) last night, and noticed that it installed the non-pae i.e. default kernel during hardware configuration, during both installs, Grub had references to configuration files instead of pointers to vmlinuz and initrd for two of the three other linux installs on the system, and a botched entry for openSuSE10.2 (this one) that had it boot into non-gui mode. At this point I've spent 3 times the hours getting this to usability (and it still isn't there) than I did for the 64 bit version on my laptop. I did discover one thing though, when it ignores my track-ball plugged into the PS2-port, I can plug an USB-Mouse in and it will recognize that. The one benefit of the re0installs is that after the last one, it did actually install the nVidia driver, but I have not booted it up to see if it took. Mike -- who is glad that ICEWM is installed automatically, as KDE and GNOME both seem to lock-up during the initial log-ins -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org