[opensuse] nvidia & ralink conflict
Hi this is mostly a thanks for yast mostly sorting out my problem. I was running my 2.6.24-rc2-4 kernel again which I knew did not work with my legacy nvidia GeForce2 MX 200 card due to advice I found after reading mails about other people's problems installing ralink wireless cards. In fact after recompiling with my version of gcc ( above kernel was compiled with 4.3 ) and enabling the ralink drivers it worked perfectly but my desktop slowed due to nvidia being gone. Then I started yast sw_single and did a reset ignored dependency conflicts and verify system yast suddenly wanted to downgrade my kernel, install ralink drivers and install nvidia drivers again. I decided to go along and included kernel sources for said downgrade (upgrade for my old 2.6.22.9-0.4 ) and downloaded the whole kernel-default-2.6.22.13-0.3.i586.rpm and source and syms (remember I once said I wanted yast to keep copies once and smart package manager doesn't work properly yet) . I then rebooted and as usual my x server didn't start. I was ready for this. I logged in as root and ran NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.01-pkg1.run and it fixed my nvidia problem. My main problem is why did I have to do that, why couldn't my desktop come up immediately. I have noticed various other people with, what seems to be, the same problem. The suse nvidia legacy drivers have a problem that the nvidia ones don't and I think it's just a configuration one, sax doesn't work anymore, is this something to do with politics? I emailed nvidia about their legacy driver and 2.6.24-rc2-4 kernel by the way, I prefer the nvidia x server configuration from nvidia. Why can't suse use that one. Dave Plater -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 30 December 2007 03:53:18 am Dave Plater wrote: [...]
I decided to go along and included kernel sources for said downgrade (upgrade for my old 2.6.22.9-0.4 ) and downloaded the whole kernel-default-2.6.22.13-0.3.i586.rpm and source and syms (remember I once said I wanted yast to keep copies once and smart package manager doesn't work properly yet) . I then rebooted and as usual my x server didn't start. I was ready for this. I logged in as root and ran NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.01-pkg1.run and it fixed my nvidia problem. My main problem is why did I have to do that, why couldn't my desktop come up immediately.
http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA Section "The easy way" warning in the blue box. I just moved warning before any version related information as it is valid for all versions, present and future. Sometimes, to satisfy more improtant reasons of computer security and stability, kernel is updated in a such way that old precompiled driver is no more compatible with new kernel. I checked X11 repository: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/Drivers:/Video:/nvidia/ but there is no directory for 10.3, so advice to use hard way is still valid.
I have noticed various other people with, what seems to be, the same problem. The suse nvidia legacy drivers have a problem that the nvidia ones don't and I think it's just a configuration one, sax doesn't work anymore, is this something to do with politics? I emailed nvidia about their legacy driver and 2.6.24-rc2-4 kernel by the way, I prefer the nvidia x server configuration from nvidia. Why can't suse use that one. Dave Plater
-- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 05:44:43AM -0600, Rajko M. wrote:
On Sunday 30 December 2007 03:53:18 am Dave Plater wrote: [...]
I decided to go along and included kernel sources for said downgrade (upgrade for my old 2.6.22.9-0.4 ) and downloaded the whole kernel-default-2.6.22.13-0.3.i586.rpm and source and syms (remember I once said I wanted yast to keep copies once and smart package manager doesn't work properly yet) . I then rebooted and as usual my x server didn't start. I was ready for this. I logged in as root and ran NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.01-pkg1.run and it fixed my nvidia problem. My main problem is why did I have to do that, why couldn't my desktop come up immediately.
http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA Section "The easy way" warning in the blue box.
I just moved warning before any version related information as it is valid for all versions, present and future. Sometimes, to satisfy more improtant reasons of computer security and stability, kernel is updated in a such way that old precompiled driver is no more compatible with new kernel.
Actually the warning is wrong I think, because I *think* that the drivers have been updated to match the latest secuity updates. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 30 December 2007 06:07:16 am Marcus Meissner wrote:
http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA Section "The easy way" warning in the blue box.
I just moved warning before any version related information as it is valid for all versions, present and future. Sometimes, to satisfy more improtant reasons of computer security and stability, kernel is updated in a such way that old precompiled driver is no more compatible with new kernel.
Actually the warning is wrong I think, because I *think* that the drivers have been updated to match the latest secuity updates.
The http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/10.3 has nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-default | 169.07_2.6.22.13_0.3-1.1 | i586 x11-video-nvidiaG01 | 169.07-1.1 | i586 and they are installed, but something went wrong with deinstallation of previous (compiled the hard way) drivers, and I had to run compilation again to get GUI. Is that the same case in David installation? -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rajko M. wrote:
On Sunday 30 December 2007 06:07:16 am Marcus Meissner wrote:
http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA Section "The easy way" warning in the blue box.
I just moved warning before any version related information as it is valid for all versions, present and future. Sometimes, to satisfy more improtant reasons of computer security and stability, kernel is updated in a such way that old precompiled driver is no more compatible with new kernel.
Actually the warning is wrong I think, because I *think* that the drivers have been updated to match the latest secuity updates.
The http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/10.3 has nvidia-gfxG01-kmp-default | 169.07_2.6.22.13_0.3-1.1 | i586 x11-video-nvidiaG01 | 169.07-1.1 | i586 and they are installed, but something went wrong with deinstallation of previous (compiled the hard way) drivers, and I had to run compilation again to get GUI.
Is that the same case in David installation?
I use file nvidia-gfx-kmp-default-1.0.9639_2.6.22.13_0.3-0.1.i586.rpm that has updated between 13 Dec & 21 Dec and nvidia-x11-drv-96xx-1.0.9631-1.src.rpm as I have an old card. The drivers you state above are for newer nvidia cards. The installer offered by nvidia that equates to the suse drivers I have is "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.01-pkg1.run" which I have to run in order to get my x working again. The above suse drivers simply stop yast from complaining. Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Dave Plater
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Marcus Meissner
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Rajko M.