Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2008-03-31 at 03:43 -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:
I've seen the instructions on the nvidia site and it looks like I need to compile a kernel. Did you find this to be true?
No, you don't.
You may need to have the kernel sources installed, with configuration equal to the running kernel (make cloneconfig prepare, I think). The nvidia installer will compile a kernel module if it needs it - never the entire kernel. And not you, but "him".
I was hoping to find some YAST-like solution that might allow me to install the driver as a module. I'm avoiding the kernel route because I cannot afford (right now) to break this installation.
Check if these instructions are still here:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/nvidia-installer-HOWTO
I think I have seen it somewhere on the wiki.
Thanks Carlos and Dave. I found this installer guide http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html because the ftp site above downloaded an empty file. These documents talk about the typical x86 chips and an AMD64 but I have an AMD Athlon XP2800+ and there are two installers for the legacy chipsets, one called NVIDIA-Linux-x86-71.86.01-pkg1.run which looks like a x86 version and NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-71.86.01-pkg2.run which looks like the AMD64 version. Do you suppose that the installer will tell me if it can't find the correct source against which to compile the module? -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org