On 05/05/2012 03:31 PM, phanisvara das wrote:
On Sat, 05 May 2012 11:48:47 +0530, Robin Klitscher
wrote: Another reason would be that the repo versions can lag the ones on the nVidia site.
either that, or for your hardware or kernel or whatever you need an older version, that's not supplied in the repos anymore.
that "hared way" isn't hard at all, and it allows you to choose whichever driver you want, when you want.
Ok I downloaded the nvidia driver that supports my card. I installed make, gcc, and kernel source. Then I blacklisted the nouveau driver by adding nvidia.conf to /etc/modprobe.d/ and putting in the 2 lines: blacklist nouveau options nouveau modeset=0 I also made sure I had linux-glibc-devel installed. After that, I booted to run level 3, cd'd to the /root/ directory where the driver is stored, and ran sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-285.05.09.run This ran in the terminal at run level 3 and then I got an error: ERROR: The kernel header file '/usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h' does not exist. The most likely reason for this is that the kernel source files in '/usr/src/linux' have not been configured. So the installation failed. Any advice? -- G.O. Box #1: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.2 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | nVidia C61 GeForce 7025 | 4GB RAM Box #2 12.1 | KDE 4.7.2 | Pentium 4 (2core) | 32 | Intel 82915G | 2GB RAM Lap #1: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.2 | Core2 Duo T8100 | 64 | Intel 965GM | 3GB RAM Lap #2: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.2 | Core Duo T2400 | 32 | NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120 | 2GB RAM learning openSUSE and loving it -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org