Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2519 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 17:53 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 19/11/09 17:13, Mike McMullin wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 13:08 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
> >   
> > > On 19/11/09 07:34, Catimimi wrote:
> > >     
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > 1° - I installed opensuse 11.2 with the Nvidia driver downloaded from
> > > > Nvidia,
> > > > everything works OK.
> > > >
> > > > 2° - I cloned the kernel, then compiled it, this kernel boots OK.
> > > >
> > > > 3° - I installed the NVidia driver on this cloned kernel, X doesn't 
> > > > start !!
> > > >
> > > > Did someone meet the same experience ? and what can be done ?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for reply.
> > > > Regards.
> > > > Michel.
> > > >   
> > > >       
> > > You need to compile the nVidia driver for the cloned kernel, and to do
> > > this you need <cloned-kernel-type>-source and <cloned-kernel-type>-devel
> > > installed before you compile the driver.
> > >     
> >   I thought we had a repo for that in 11.2?  The whole compile the
> > NVidia driver is fine for a single user system, but for a multi-user
> > system it's too much of a hassle from my experience.
>
> Maybe so - but I don't use the repo: I always compile my own driver - but 
> with the variety of kernels now available in oS, is the correct driver 
> installed to suit the version of kernel which is installed? "Heducate" me  
> :-) .

  I'm trying to get away from compiling that driver, or any driver for
that matter, lately the tip has been more support than use of Linux, and
that is what I hated about Win.  I want to use it, not configure the
normal every day things about it.

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