On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Rainer Koenig wrote:
Mark Horton <mark@nostromo.net> writes:
I've been running the nvidia 1.0-5332 driver with suse 9.1 for a few weeks with no problems. Here's the output of dmesg regarding the kernel module loading during bootup:
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86_64 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-5332 Fri Jan 9 12:42:32 PST 2004
I simply used Yast2 to install the nvidia driver during an online update. I did no further configuration myself (except adding Option "NoLogo" "on" to get rid of the logo display). I did have a problem at first with random lockups but it turned out to be a bad dimm. It has run smoothly ever since I had the bad dimm replaced.
That's quite strange. It would mean that the nvidia-driver is available on an FTP server as a RPM?
No. There are a number of files in the patch area which do not have rpms but scripts attached. One of them is the nvidia script, which downloads the nvidia driver from nvidia and installs them.
But at least on ftp.suse.com I don't find any RPM that looks like it contains the nVidia driver.
Look in the scripts catalogue.
Are you really running a 2.6.x kernel with the nVidia 1.0-5332 driver? I tried here several times and all I got was a message that the nvidia kernel module has a wrong format.
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