On Wednesday, December 04, 2013 07:17:41 PM Francesco Teodori wrote:

If building process fails for some reason, as root, run the command "dkms install nvidia -v version", where version is the version of the driver. Non needs to reinstall packages. Regards, Francesco

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Dylan wrote:

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On 02/12/13 14:02, Francesco Teodori wrote:

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You may try this repo

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Bumblebee-Project:/ nVidia:/latest/openSUSE_13.1/ dkms solution as previous one. There is a nvidia-compute package. Maybe the functionality you need, not sure, I do not use cuda. Ragards,

Francesco

I tested this today by updating the kernel to the one from the OBS kernel repo. Unfortunately, on reboot I was left at the command prompt with a message that the nvidia driver was not present. I manually re-installed the nvidia drivers (from the rpms in the bumblebee repo) and have graphics back, but I thought the whole point of dkms was to sort that out automatically...

Am I missing something, do I need to activate dkms somewhere (other than installing dkms and the nvidia dkms packages, that it)?

Cheers

Dx

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On 06/12/13 18:32, C wrote:

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Upscope wrote:

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Is there a special version of the Nvidia Driver needed to have DKMS work? I have the Nvidia driver from Nvidia's Website, dkms is installed, boot shows if active at least for the kernel. But I still need to manual install driver each time I change between 12.3 and 13.1 on same disk.

Any help would be appreciated.

Did you install dkms before or after you installed the Nvidia drivers? It needs to be installed before. Then when you build the drivers, the build script finds dkms and you get a message about it in the installed asking if you want to use dkms for future kernel updates (I forget the exact wording). If you answer Yes, the script does its magic to hook the driver up with dkms. Then next kernel update it should auto-build the driver on the first boot after the kernel is installed.

However... the module is not built in time to be loaded on that boot, so a further boot is required. At least, that's my experience so far... Dx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org