I recommend you download the drivers direct from NVidia yourself, then follow the Install instructions on the download page. There are only a few steps but those steps are entirely dependent on your configuration. I had to go the source rpm route since I was not running the stock kernel shipped with 7.2. If you have modified your setup at all since your install, use the Install instructions from NVidia's page. If I had done that I would have saved myself 2 days troubleshooting after I installed the drivers. Now that they work though, they are awesome. Read the Install instructions before downloading because it will tell you which files you need. You are right about the Online update though because Yast is assuming you still have a vanilla intall. Screwed me up too. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Arthur" <j_a_arthur@yahoo.com> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 1:27 AM Subject: [SLE] Online-update NVidia drivers --> Bad idea
Hello all. Been lurking for a few days, and I've just had a nasty problem turn up. Here's what I sent to NVidia:
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Summary of problem: I've recently installed SuSE 7.2 on my system. Straight after installing this I did an "online update" which downloaded the NVidia drivers and installed them. After that, weird things have started to happen, resulting in me not being able to get any screen mode that isn't MS-Windows or X-Windows. <snip>
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
--jaa