Re: [opensuse-factory] 10.3 Beta-2 + nvidia-drivers
On Friday 31 August 2007 01:04:46 am TooMany Secrets wrote:
2007/8/31, Rajko M. <rmatov101@charter.net>:
But there is another question, is it necessary 'bigsmp'. TooMany Secrets should have a big machine (> 4GB RAM, etc) to need it.
No. My machine has 1 Gb RAM. The only question about to any especiallity into linux kernel, is about to smp, although it is not necessary.
Thanks.
In that case I would install kernel that ends with -default. That is smp kernel and perfectly fits your machine. The sources have to match running kernel, and than nvidia installation will not complain. Although someone removed advice for; cd /usr/src/linux make oldconfig make prepare from article http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA in my experience, nvidia installer will not work without at least first 2 lines, ie, changing working directory to /usr/src/linux and than copy of current configuration: cd /usr/src/linux make oldconfig the only line that last version of nvidia installer didn't really needed was 'make prepare' . I added that too, just to make sure that every possible effort is made to have all bits ready. The guy that removed above 3 commands from article is, so far I know, one of kernel developers, and I don't go in discussion what is right, the SUSE kernel or nvidia installer creators. -- Regards, Rajko. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
* Rajko M. <rmatov101@charter.net> [08-31-07 07:30]:
Although someone removed advice for; cd /usr/src/linux make oldconfig make prepare from article http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA in my experience, nvidia installer will not work without at least first 2 lines, ie, changing working directory to /usr/src/linux and than copy of current configuration: cd /usr/src/linux make oldconfig the only line that last version of nvidia installer didn't really needed was 'make prepare' . I added that too, just to make sure that every possible effort is made to have all bits ready.
The guy that removed above 3 commands from article is, so far I know, one of kernel developers, and I don't go in discussion what is right, the SUSE kernel or nvidia installer creators.
I have not ever found those steps necessary when installing NVidia's package, just " sh ./NVIDIA-Linux....run -a" from runlevel 3, then return to runlevel 5. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 31 August 2007 06:53:19 am Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Rajko M. <rmatov101@charter.net> [08-31-07 07:30]:
Although someone removed advice for; cd /usr/src/linux make oldconfig make prepare from article http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA in my experience, nvidia installer will not work without at least first 2 lines, ie, changing working directory to /usr/src/linux and than copy of current configuration: cd /usr/src/linux make oldconfig the only line that last version of nvidia installer didn't really needed was 'make prepare' . I added that too, just to make sure that every possible effort is made to have all bits ready.
The guy that removed above 3 commands from article is, so far I know, one of kernel developers, and I don't go in discussion what is right, the SUSE kernel or nvidia installer creators.
I have not ever found those steps necessary when installing NVidia's package, just " sh ./NVIDIA-Linux....run -a" from runlevel 3, then return to runlevel 5.
I know that when I started to compile nvidia drivers it was not necessary to run any of above commands. Than someone asked for advice, and I pointed to article. Than he came again with error that I wasn't able to see before, so I checked, and it worked for me, but my kernel sources are usually configured, as nvidia is not only reason that I have them. After removing kernel sources, installing and trying again I found out that it doesn't work as before and put advice online. That is whole story. -- Regards, Rajko. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 31 August 2007 06:53:19 am Patrick Shanahan wrote:
Although someone removed advice for; cd /usr/src/linux make oldconfig make prepare from article http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA in my experience, nvidia installer will not work without at least first 2 lines, ie, changing working directory to /usr/src/linux and than copy of current configuration: cd /usr/src/linux make oldconfig the only line that last version of nvidia installer didn't really needed was 'make prepare' . I added that too, just to make sure that every possible effort is made to have all bits ready.
The guy that removed above 3 commands from article is, so far I know, one of kernel developers, and I don't go in discussion what is right, the SUSE kernel or nvidia installer creators. I have not ever found those steps necessary when installing NVidia's
* Rajko M. <rmatov101@charter.net> [08-31-07 07:30]: package, just " sh ./NVIDIA-Linux....run -a" from runlevel 3, then return to runlevel 5.
I know that when I started to compile nvidia drivers it was not necessary to run any of above commands.
Than someone asked for advice, and I pointed to article. Than he came again with error that I wasn't able to see before, so I checked, and it worked for me, but my kernel sources are usually configured, as nvidia is not only reason that I have them. After removing kernel sources, installing and trying again I found out that it doesn't work as before and put advice online.
That is whole story.
Occasionally the kernel changes also and there is a patch available from the NVidia forum for 2.6.22 to build NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.11-pkg2 or pkg1 for x86. "patch-change-recent-kernel-2.6.22-nvidia-100.14.11.txt". Although NVidia are very responsive, they do make it a bit difficult especially for inexperienced users to get 3D working. With ATI on the other hand, I've only ever got 2 releases to build, along comes a kernel or xorg change and it can be almost a year before they'll react, yet you read how hard at work they are providing a Linux driver. The situation is likely to persist as the drivers are proprietary and they have development cycles that are exceedingly long. The kernel moves at a fast pace to improve and as Linus said "Linux is Evolution, not Intelligent Design", the latter hardly ever changes over a five year life cycle, the Linux kernel changes daily. 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
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