On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 02:48:30PM -0700, Robert Lewis wrote:

Stefan Dirsch wrote:

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On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 09:56:47PM -0500, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:

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I will write later about my experience with installing 11.0 on a desktop machine that users an nvidia card. It will be about user complexity in trying to figure out which of the nvidia entries are correct as I obviously choose the wrong one and lost my graphics.

There are two choices ( http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA ): recent and legacy cards. Just check the card list and select the appropriate driver :-)

Since openSUSE 11.0 this is no longer necessary. The appropriate NVIDIA packages will be autoselected by YaST2 right after adding the repo. If no additional packages are autoselected, your card is not supported by the driver (RPMs). So this is - thanks to the community repo list - now as easy as the 1-click-install and much more safer.

Hi Stefan:

That was all good news. However, it isn't working for me here and failing. Everything is fine with "nv" driver though. Maybe I should try compiling the "nvidia" driver and installing but would prefer not to. I do know how to do it though.

Unfortunately you need to due to Bug #390272, which has been classified as blocker. Still I was right. "If no additional packages are autoselected, your card is not supported by the driver (RPMs)." ^^^^ Best regards, Stefan Public Key available ------------------------------------------------------ Stefan Dirsch (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Tel: 0911-740 53 0 Maxfeldstraße 5 FAX: 0911-740 53 479 D-90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org