Tom Allison wrote:
Tom Allison wrote:
:-)
You have hit the nVIDIA Driver Brickwall Syndrome.
Even the very latest driver (5336), which is supposed to have fixed all sorts of problems, causes you to hit the Brickwall.
Tell us (me) which video card you are using and which version of the kernel (Athlon or non-Athlon)?
Depending on your answer, you may have to go back to the #4363 driver (you would uninstall the driver you just installed with 'nvidia-installer --uninstall' and then install the #4363 driver.
I'm finding a lot of threads about this problem.
I'm not very happy with how the nVidia driver installation went the first time, but eventually running sh NVIDIA...run worked.
The same script works under SuSE90?
As far as I am concerned, this script only runs on Suse v9.0 (and on subsequent releases I presume). For earlier versions of Suse you need to do other things -- it's all in the documentation, the README. There is also a link to the doco on the Suse site as well and one should read both to get the full picture on how to install the driver(s) [and depending on which version of Suse one has]. Because the driver has to be compiled as it is being installed one needs to make sure that the source code is installed for the kernel version used and also that the latest patch for the source has been installed. You mentioned earlier that the kernel you have is patched to 'version' #166. Go to /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update/9.0/rpm/i586 and see that kernel-source is there and it is patched to #166. After this, follow the instructions given in this forum by Anders or what is shown in the doco on the Suse site to install the driver (even if it the 4363 one). But remember to first uninstall the one you now have installed. Also, when you are installing the 4363 it will complain about 3 times about missing bits (or something). Just ignore the complaints and give it OK (or Continue or whatever) and all will work. Cheers. -- All Scottish food is based on a dare.