On Sunday 07 August 2005 18:48, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
Hi,
For many months now the NVIDIA drivers site for the linux drivers had been broke. When I try to d/l the drivers it always stalls. I have tried different browsers and KGet w/o being able to get the drivers.
YAST install depends on the NVIDIA site to work to complete the driver install. And we depend on it to get the newer drivers whenever there is a new kernel in YOU.
Have any of you found mirrors that have the latest drivers? Is there another workaround.
PeterB
Can you get to this URL? http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp I downloaded from there and was able to install the latest nvidia driver. The download is a shell script that contains within it a binary that will try to install a matching driver for your kernel or will compile one if needed (as it might be for the latest SuSE kernel update). If a compilation is needed, you must have the correct kernel sources installed and probably have done the following (as root) before running the downloaded script. cd /usr/src/linux make cloneconfig make prepare When the script attempts the compile, there will be some scary looking messages about "failures" to do various things but it will all work out OK if you take it all the way through. Bob