On Wed, 18 Dec 2013, Peter wrote:

On 17/12/13 11:13, Peter wrote:

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On 15/12/13 08:41, Dylan wrote:

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On 10/12/13 21:54, Marcus Meissner wrote:

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Hi,

I just received word from Stefan Dirsch that the NVIDIA drivers for 13.1 are now online .

ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/13.1/

And today they have gone again... Anyone would think nvidia didn't want customers...

Today they're back again. Catch 'em while you can.

In fact I've run into a hitch. I'm still on openSUSE 12.3 and am intending to do an upgrade to 13.1 in the next couple of days. I already have the nVidia repo for 12.3 set up and the drivers installed, but I noted in YaST that these newer drivers are showing up, so I thought I'd update those before I do a system upgrade as it might smooth the process slightly.

Strange thing is I get constant 'Cannot find installation media' errors and no amount of retries will help. I can download and install updates from other repos no problem, so I deleted the nVidia repo and then reinstalled via the community repositories link in YaST. Again, it sets the repo up no problem and displays the updated drivers, but refuses to download / install them.

I tried some random stabbing in the dark. By clicking on the Show Details box I then tried adjusting the path from http to ftp and retried. It returns the same installation media error showing the ftp url in the string. I also tried reenabling IPv6 on the system and rebooted, waiting over 10 minutes for the default repo refresh time in YaST to pass. Still no joy. I could try seeing if it's any different in zypper but I wonder if anybody else is running into this and whether it's a bug, and if so, should I report it direct to nVidia since they host the repo?

Cheers, Peter

Yesterday I updated 12.3 to 13.1. I encountered the same issue, I just ignored upgrading the nvidia driver in 12.3 (I did update almost everything else). When setting up the repos for the upgrade I left the nvidia repo enabled. The sed instruction sed -i 's/12\.3/13\.1/g' /etc/zypp/repos.d/* in http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:System_upgrade then changed this to the 13.1 version of the repo. The proprietary driver then upgraded as part of the distribution upgrade. The upgrade completed normally and a reboot worked as expected. Everything seems normal. In fact it's hard to see much difference - it might be booting a bit slower. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org