On Sunday 22 October 2006 12:42, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 09:46 -0500, Rajko M wrote:
On Sunday 22 October 2006 05:27, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
As to my original post, seems that if you install the nvidia driver via smart, the link from nvidia_drv.so to nv_drv.so is made. Effectively removing the NVIDIA supplied driver, but still letting you specify 'nvidia' in the X config without generating an error. Don't know why.
Trying to be "smart", but who is at fault. The configuration program (sax) or postinstall script in the rpm that you tried to install. Do you have any reference to location of package that you tried to install with smart?
ftp://download.nvidia.com/novell, which can be added as an rpm-md repository. I think it can also be used from yast. But I am pretty sure when used from smart, the odd link appeared. I do not recall which version of the driver was installed this way. It would be whatever one was available late September. It could also be some non-NVIDIA wrapper that did this.
I just looked in nvidia-gfx-kmp-default-1.0.8762_2.6.16.21_0.8-1.i586.rpm postinstall scripts and it has nothing that will perform linking to nv driver. Even post uninstall will not do that, which might sound logical if previous driver was nv. Maybe, it is possible to find something on http://bugzilla.novell.com that will explain this. I'll see tomorrow. -- Regards, Rajko M.