Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Sid Boyce <sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk> [11-21-08 23:39]:
I have always had to do so or the long way before I found out about cloneconfig, "cd /usr/src/linux;cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config;make oldconfig".
Using the NV...pkg directly from NVidia?
It's mentioned in an obscure place, see /usr/src/linux/README.SUSE, but no doubt documented elsewhere.
I don't recall it being with the install instructions referred by the NVidia package specifically for openSUSE.
You say you "have always had to", have you ever tried w/o? How do you know this?
Yes, I "tried" inadvertently recently when building NV on a new install. I got the same error as I had seen going way back. I can't remember how I first found out that I needed to use "make cloneconfig" and "make prepare", it used to be "make prepare-all" - too long ago, perhaps back when it was wise and sometimes very necessary to read the kernel's README files in order to not come to grief or in this case end up with perhaps a non-bootable system if something critical got missed while doing make config/menuconfig/xconfig and building a new kernel that overwrites the running kernel. To avoid such a fate, I always altered the "EXTRAVERSION=" line in the Makefile to produce a differently named kernel so I could reboot the original should a problem arise. In any case I think /var/log/nvidia-installer.log gives you a clue as to what the problem is. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org