On 15/12/13 09:03, C wrote:
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Dylan wrote:
On 10/12/13 21:54, Marcus Meissner wrote:
Hi,
I just received word from Stefan Dirsch that the NVIDIA drivers for 13.1 are now online .
ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/13.1/
And today they have gone again... Anyone would think nvidia didn't want customers...
If you can, just build them yourself.
Install dkms (from packman), make, gcc and the kernel headers (or source). Download the NVidia driver from their website. Log out of the GUI. As root, drop to run level 3 (the old init 3 still works if you don't want to be bothered with the new command) run the installer.. accept the defaults... reboot. Done.
If there is a kernel update, the dkms link will auto-rebuild the driver on restart. I've been using this for quite a while, and it works well.
C.
I know how to do it manually, but that doesn't provide rpm with the dependency information for some opengl packages. I have tried the dkms system (both with the nvidia installer and the dkms-enabled packages from the bumblebee repo) and found it to be unreliable at best. Using the updated kernel repo for test purposes, after kernel update there are various spurious side-effects ranging from fatal module not found errors at boot (even though it *is* present) through random changes in screen resolution and twinview set up, opengl and/or mesa dependent software failing, to cuda becoming unavailable. This is *not* a viable solution for the cgi group I support. Dx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org