On Sunday 05 February 2012 18:57:57 Felix Miata wrote:
Thus the question, since he's stuck in runlevel 3 unless booting previous kernel with proprietary NVidia already installed; accordingly, xorg.conf was created consistent with NVidia custom high DPI operation and incompatible with FOSS drivers (nv/nouveau). He wants to keep only the preferred kernel installed, zypper rm the other, and install the proprietary driver only in the remaining new kernel.
kernel-desktop is a good choice for a desktop machine. xorg.conf shouldn't be needed anymore, except in very special circumstances using the kmp packages for the nvidia driver will eliminate all these problems, since it is possible to have both -desktop and -default installed at the same time, you don't have to reinstall every time you do a kernel update, and you don't get an unneeded xorg.conf generated The kmp packages should get installed automatically by YaST the next time you use its software module, by the way Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org