Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (963 mails)

[Bob Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 02 Nov 2010 07:59:55 Mark Goldstein wrote:
> On 11/2/10, James D. Parra <jamesp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...
>
> > If you downloaded the NVidia driver you only need to rerun from the CLI.
> >
> > For example, as root run ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.12.run (or the
> > package you used to install previously). You'll need to run 'init 3'
> > first.
>
> If you want NVIDIA driver to be used for a number of kernels, install
> it once and then for additional kernel use
> ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.12.run -K - it will add driver module for
> this kernel and will not mess with X.
>
> Also, instead of init 3 you can just type 3 in boot options (on the
> boot-up screen).
Many thanks, guys. See my [SOLVED] reply later in the thread. I am aware of 
init 5, rather than rebooting after building the nvidia drivers, to get back 
to the GUI, but, what the heck, it's the way I did it. ;)

Bob
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