Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (963 mails)

[Ken Schneider - openSUSE <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/02/2010 06:28 AM, Bob Williams pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> Success!
>
> Problem: The default kernel that ships with openSUSE 11.3 conflicts with the 
> latest Nvidia graphics drivers, leading to frequent freezing of the system 
> for 
> several seconds at a time. My keyboard buffer was also affected, often 
> sending 
> a jumble of the characters I'd typed each time the system caught up with me.
>
> Solution: Upgrade the kernel.
>
> 1. Add this repository, either in YaST or with zypper ar: 
> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_11.3/
>
> 2. In YaST software management, upgrade all your kernel packages to the newer 
> kernel - in my case that's 2.6.36-90-desktop. The packages I had to upgrade 
> were kernel-desktop, kernel-desktop-devel and kernel-devel. Install kernel-
> sources, if it's not already installed, otherwise upgrade it as well. The 
> easiest way to do this upgrade is to select the Kernel:/HEAD repository and 
> click on 'Switch system packages to the versions in this repository'.
>
> 3. Build and install the Nvidia drivers.
>
> On the Nvidia website - http://www.nvidia.co.uk/page/home.html - click on 
> 'Download Drivers', enter the details of your graphics card, and download the 
> driver. This will be in the form a shell script, such as NVIDIA-Linux-
> x86_64-260.19.12.run. (The name will differ if you've selected the 32 bit 
> driver). Save it wherever you like, then make it executable (chmod +x 
> <filename>).

Please don't make it executable. Instead use (as root) sh <name of run file>

> Reboot the computer, selecting the new 2.6.36 kernel. Graphics mode will 
> fail, 
> and you will be left at a console login prompt. Login as root, then cd to the 
> directory containing the Nvidia script. Type:


sh  ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.12.run or whatever your file was called.
(the proper way to execute the program)

> Agree to the licence, then accept all the options offered. The final stage is 
> to ask if you want the script to run nvidia-xconfig for you. The default is 
> No, but I would recommend answering yes here, as you will only have to do 
> this 
> later anyway.
>
> Reboot again (:~ # shutdown -r now), and you should be back into a graphical 
> environment.
>
> Many thanks to Matt Hayes, Togan Muftuoglu, David Rankin, michael getachew, 
> dwgallien and Felix Miata, who helped me through this.
>
> Bob


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Ken Schneider
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