On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 09:57:50AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
- what could be causing this? Why would the NVIDIA drivers work one moment and not the next? Since I used YAST to install instead of doing it manually via the terminal, it seems I shouldn't need to reinstall the NVIDIA drivers every time I update the kernel, which otherwise would have sounded like a possible cause.
You *probably* did a kernel update which also requires a reinstall of the nVidia drivers.
Everytime you update the Mesa package, it's time to repump the NVIDIA one.
This is only true, when you use the installer. If you do use the RPMs, it's not.
IIRC I was unable to install the rpms from the nvidia site, because they conflict with the Mesa one (such as libGL.so.1).
You'll need to update your Mesa package first. * Fr Mai 19 2006 - sndirsch@suse.de - fixed libGLcore.so.1 (e.g. soname); required to create a non-conflicting package for the NVIDIA driver (Bug #175683) - no longer remove NVIDIA driver in %pre 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 ------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org