Quentin Jackson wrote:
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 23:51 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Sid Boyce
[11-21-08 23:39]: I have always had to do so or the long way before I found out about cloneconfig, "cd /usr/src/linux;cp /boot/config-`uname -r` .config;make oldconfig". Using the NV...pkg directly from NVidia?
It's mentioned in an obscure place, see /usr/src/linux/README.SUSE, but no doubt documented elsewhere. I don't recall it being with the install instructions referred by the NVidia package specifically for openSUSE.
You say you "have always had to", have you ever tried w/o? How do you know this? -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org
Actually it would be great to know what the perfect way of doing this and what the benefits are, if we can get more fps or somehow a more stable driver I'm sure everyone would want to know :)
Q
I have read lots of posts on the subject, but both a friend and I have found a foolproof way that we have used over the years, but nobody ever seemed to like our method enough to give it a try. 1. Download the file from the NVidia site. 2. In a tty "init 3" or boot to "init 3" by adding 3 to the kernel parameter line. 3. "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.06-pkg2.run --keep" the first time. 4. On subsequent builds and especially after upgrading, which overwrites the NVidia xorg modules:- "cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.06-pkg2; ./nvidia-installer". 5. "init 5" or reboot. If it's a new kernel build where a distro update hasn't altered anything in /usr/lib(64)/xorg/modules, "cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.06-pkg2/usr/src/nv;make install" so only a new kernel module gets built and installed ready for a "init 5" or reboot. Those of us who test the latest vanilla kernels hit problems regularly when things change in those kernels and provide feedback/changes to the nvidia forum so that by the time those kernels get into the distros, the problems have long been fixed - there have been major kernel changes affecting the NVidia driver since before 2.6.26 came out and afterwards. # uname -r 2.6.28-rc6-git1-smp Running with driver 180.06 on openSUSE 11.1 Beta 5.2 (x86_64) and KDE 4.2 Beta, no problem. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org