On 02/05/2010 05:35 PM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 05:09:36PM +0200, Dave Plater wrote:
On 02/04/2010 07:24 PM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
Hi folks,
We are currently having difficulties with the 11.2 kernel update, to version 2.6.31.12-0.1.1.
The kernel update is currently in the 11.2-test repo, http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.2-test/ This repo is used for testing our updates before they are pushed to the official 11.2 repo.
A cursory test here showed that the NVIDIA drivers from the NVIDIA YMPs that were there before Christmas did not work with the new kernel. The ones published by NVIDIA after Christmas work with the test kernel.
We would like to have some testcoverage with NVIDIA drivers and this kernel update.
So if you have a NVIDIA card and use the drivers from either NVIDIA single click install (or even self installed ones), feedback would be appreciated.
As this is the test repo, we recommend testers be able to recover from potential wrong updates, like a non booting kernel. If you do not know how to recover from such things, please just disregard this email.
Ciao, Marcus (for the openSUSE Maintenance and Security team ;)
I'm still using "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-190.42-pkg2.run" dated 2009-11-06 would testing the kernel with that driver help to shed any light?
Just try. As this is the manual driver install you will need to rebuild it after the kernel update as usual.
Ciao, Marcus
Tried the ymp and it works, 190.53 driver, The refresh rate (detectable screen flicker) is not as good as the run package one and it has altered the colour of my kde4 panel to transparent. The new font size isn't good either. There must be something that can be done to improve the quality of the nvidia repo driver. The only other nvidia driver available for my card, which I don't have is 173.14 dated Nov 18, so I'm not sure which are the pre and post December drivers referred to. My kernel :- uname -a Linux Arbuthnot 2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-01-27 08:20:11 +0100 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux My graphics card :- # hwinfo --gfxcard 22: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.318] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_161 Unique ID: VCu0.PF06ujSHk03 Parent ID: vSkL.KeIzu5mXpD3 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "nVidia GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)" Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation" Device: pci 0x0161 "GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)" SubVendor: pci 0x1462 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd." SubDevice: pci 0x0271 Revision: 0xa1 Driver: "nvidia" Driver Modules: "nvidia" Memory Range: 0xfd000000-0xfdffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff (rw,prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xfc000000-0xfcffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xfeae0000-0xfeafffff (ro,prefetchable,disabled) IRQ: 16 (28062 events) I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000161sv00001462sd00000271bc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: XFree86 v4 Server Module: nv Driver Info #1: XFree86 v4 Server Module: nvidia 3D Support: yes Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #9 (PCI bridge) Primary display adapter: #22 I will try the equivalent run package driver. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org