On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Anders Johansson wrote:

To: suse-security@suse.com From: Anders Johansson <andjoh@rydsbo.net> Subject: Re: [suse-security] Kernel source not matching kernel update

On Sunday 18 April 2004 21:19, Keith Roberts wrote:

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When I use the nvidia-installer it always compiles the nvidia kernel-driver interface for me, as no other options are found, even though I use the standard SuSE 8.1 k_deflt kernel.

Right, according to the README, for suse versions 8.1 and below, they are supposed to provide RPMs. And there is one for the 2.4.19 kernel at ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-5336/

although there doesn't seem to be one for the new 2.4.21 kernel

but the advise seems a bit confused, since they seem to say both to install the rpm *and* run the installer, which seems a bit redundant.

Anyways, note that the README suggests that the nvidia installer isn't intended to work with 8.1, which is as you discovered yourself

Perhaps that's where I went wrong. I got most of the install done with nvidia-installer. then had to finish it off by hand myself. Keith Roberts