Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (888 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Mark Misulich <munguanaweza@xxxxxxxxx> [01-10-11 06:55]:
> I downloaded the Nvidia driver binary from the Nvidia website last
> evening, and saved it to my home folder.  Then, I booted the 2.6.37
> kernel last evening to runlevel 3.  After that I tried to cd to the
> place in my home folder where I saved the Nvidia driver so I could use
> the run command you gave me to install the driver in that kernel.  But I
> couldn't cd to the driver.  

Do you have more than *one* openSUSE operating systine installed?  Sounds
like the kernel is not in the same system.

> From your current system, 2.6.34 kernel, do from the commandline:
  rpm -qa kernel*
and provide results.  

> I played around with commands, and found that there was no home
> directory present with that kernel.  So the upgrade to the 2.6.37 kernel
> went bad. 

??  do from the cl:  ls -la /home

> I still have the 2.6.34 kernel entry in grub that I can use to boot the
> operating system, which happens to be what I am using now.  Now I am
> wondering what is next?  Why hasn't this upgrade to a new kernel worked
> for the last few months, and how do I get it to upgrade sucessfully?

yet to be determined  :^)
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