* Curtis Rey [Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:06:35 -0500]:
I've tried to load the drivers using both the SuSE/YaST method in the FAQ and nVidia's methods (rpm -Uhv NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769.suse71.i386.rpm --nodeps --force and rpm -Uhv NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769.suse71.i386.rpm --force, which worked great with the 2.2.18 and 2.4.0-4GB kernels) but it says after issueing the command "switch2nvidia_glx" and then "gears" it says that the '/dev/nvidiaactl' is not present - even though it is.
Sorry, but IMHO you're barking up the wrong tree. Judging by the amount of mail we get, a lot of people have problems. And as nvidia still refuses to either open up their driver or hand out specifications without requiring an NDA, there is absolutely no chance that someone outside nvidia can fix it.
The old 2.4.0-4GB and the 2.4.0-SuSE will boot also but but the nic and sound fails and I get a "kernel can't find map" in the xconsole.
That's relatively harmless. The only app that needs System.map is klogd and it wants it to translate kernel oops to something more readable.
I've tried to reinstall the nic and sound setup but both YaST and YaST2 fails saying it can't update the modules.
You've updated modutils, haven't you?
It makes you wonder, since they were the first to release the 2.4 kernel, that this was more a marketing ploy to boost sales.
That's not quite correct. Would we have left it out, people would have complained just as well. Everybody knows that a Linux kernel just out the door can't be that stable as the previous stable version and the rather fast release of updates clearly shows it. 2.4.X just isn't the best kernel of all times. It might get there, but it's not yet. That's the reason 2.2.18 is the default kernel for installation in 7.1 and also the reason why our free installation support doesn't cover it. SuSE 7.2 will use 2.4.X (most probably 2.4.4) as default kernel and then of course it will be supported. But 2.4.[34] is a whole different beast then 2.4.0.
At this rate I might give RH with the new 2.4 kernel a try, they claim to support it.
Yes, *now* they do it. At the time 2.4.0 was released they publicly said they'd wait. Now that the kernel has 'stabilized', they use and support it. So will we with the next version.
And, like it or not, almost all new software/packages are made for RH before almost any other distro.
Well, many sites also don't offer Debian packages, does that make the distribution bad? IMO this is mostly done out of ignorance. And, BTW, you didn't really need to quote the complete original mail. Philipp -- Penguins to save the dinosaurs -- Handelsblatt on Linux for S/390