[opensuse] why doesn't yast install current nvidia driver?
I just read this: On Sunday 24 June 2007 17:45:40 Rajko M. wrote:
On Sunday 24 June 2007 09:11, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 24 June 2007 01:36:47 Rajko M. wrote:
The latest driver is: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9639/
No, the latest is 100.14.11. The 32 bit version is at
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/100.14.11/NVIDIA-Linux-x8 6- 100.14.11-pkg1.run
Hi Anders,
There is 3 series of drivers for nVidia graphic adapters. You can see that in: http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/100.14.11/README/appendix-a .html
Daniel has GeForce4 MX 4000 supported with 1.0-96xx series of legacy drives. The latest in that series for any CPU architecture is 1.0-9639 as listed on: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
I thought I'd start a new thread because I have a related question prompted by this information. I recently installed Suse 10.2 and added the nvidia repository. It has definitely installed and is running an nvidia driver, because I see an nvidia splash screen. But YaST tells me that what I have installed is nvidia-gfx-kmp-default 1.0.9631_2.6.18.2_34-0.1 and it says 1.0.9639_2.6.18.8_0.3-0.1 is available. nvidia-settings tells me I have 1.0-9631 too. I've just now discovered that it is a 'legacy' driver. But I have a GeForce 6200, which according to the nvidia link above is supported by the current 100.14.11 driver. It doesn't need a legacy driver. So why has YaST installed the legacy driver from the nvidia repository? How do I get it to install the current driver? Do I just use YaST to select the G01 flavours instead, or is there more to it? Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 24 June 2007 12:12, Dave Howorth wrote:
I just read this:
On Sunday 24 June 2007 17:45:40 Rajko M. wrote:
On Sunday 24 June 2007 09:11, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 24 June 2007 01:36:47 Rajko M. wrote:
The latest driver is: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9639/
No, the latest is 100.14.11. The 32 bit version is at
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/100.14.11/NVIDIA-Linu x-x8 6- 100.14.11-pkg1.run
Hi Anders,
There is 3 series of drivers for nVidia graphic adapters. You can see that in: http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/100.14.11/README/append ix-a .html
Daniel has GeForce4 MX 4000 supported with 1.0-96xx series of legacy drives. The latest in that series for any CPU architecture is 1.0-9639 as listed on: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
I thought I'd start a new thread because I have a related question prompted by this information.
I recently installed Suse 10.2 and added the nvidia repository. It has definitely installed and is running an nvidia driver, because I see an nvidia splash screen. But YaST tells me that what I have installed is
nvidia-gfx-kmp-default 1.0.9631_2.6.18.2_34-0.1 and it says 1.0.9639_2.6.18.8_0.3-0.1 is available. nvidia-settings tells me I have 1.0-9631 too. I've just now discovered that it is a 'legacy' driver.
But I have a GeForce 6200, which according to the nvidia link above is supported by the current 100.14.11 driver. It doesn't need a legacy driver.
So why has YaST installed the legacy driver from the nvidia repository?
How do I get it to install the current driver? Do I just use YaST to select the G01 flavours instead, or is there more to it?
Cheers, Dave
http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/10.2/ is the place where YaST is looking for precompiled drivers. You can download newest driver and install it using instructions in: http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA section "The hard way" The tradeoff for having newest driver is that after every kernel update you have to recompile it again, which on reasonably new computer is not pain at all. I keep the driver out of YaST sight in /nvidia subdirectory of root home directory. That way, after login as root, driver is just cd nvidia sh N* away from me. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rajko M. wrote:
On Sunday 24 June 2007 12:12, Dave Howorth wrote:
I recently installed Suse 10.2 and added the nvidia repository. It has definitely installed and is running an nvidia driver, because I see an nvidia splash screen. But YaST tells me that what I have installed is
nvidia-gfx-kmp-default 1.0.9631_2.6.18.2_34-0.1 and it says 1.0.9639_2.6.18.8_0.3-0.1 is available. nvidia-settings tells me I have 1.0-9631 too. I've just now discovered that it is a 'legacy' driver.
But I have a GeForce 6200, which according to the nvidia link above is supported by the current 100.14.11 driver. It doesn't need a legacy driver.
So why has YaST installed the legacy driver from the nvidia repository?
How do I get it to install the current driver? Do I just use YaST to select the G01 flavours instead, or is there more to it?
Cheers, Dave
http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/10.2/ is the place where YaST is looking for precompiled drivers.
Yes, that is the repository that YaST has downloaded the driver from. Specifically, I believe it has installed a slightly earlier version of: ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/10.2/x86_64/nvidia-gfx-kmp-default-1.0.9639_2.6.18.8_0.3-0.1.x86_64.rpm My question is why it has not installed and does not now suggest updating to the appropriate one for my card: ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/10.2/x86_64/nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-default-100.14.09_2.6.18.8_0.3-1.1.x86_64.rpm And failing the above, how do I manually tell it which driver it should be using in such a way that the driver continues working when the kernel is updated?
You can download newest driver and install it using instructions in: http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA section "The hard way"
Yes, that's how I've had to do it before and it is a real pain to have to manually recompile every time there is a kernel update. That's why I was very glad to see that Suse and Nvidia support the repository in 10.2 that enables automatic installation and maintenance. And it's why I'm disappointed that it doesn't seem to be installing the correct driver and why I'd like to know what I need to do to get it to work automatically as it is supposed to. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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