2010/7/19 Linux_Sle
On 19/07/10 20:52, Jakub Rusinek wrote:
Dnia 19-07-2010 o 21:40:26 Linux_Sle
napisał(a): On 19/07/10 20:28, Roman Bysh wrote:
Hi all,
It used to be standard practice to have Nvidia rpms ready for the release of a new openSUSE distro.
Who missed the memo for openSUSE 11.3?
Cheers!
Roman
The nvidia rpms provided have not worked reliably in the past in my experience. Downloading and manually installing nvidia driver is a better option.
Sudhir
Sadly, I need to confirm it. After, 11.1 I guess, was released, I installed fresh SUSE and decided to install RPMs as I used to before, but they didn't work. I had to download the driver tarball and compile on my own. Then it started working. I don't trust their packages.
Now I've migrated to ATI, but still have to compile on my own, as ATI fails to provide packages... It's not good to rely on hardware manufacturer...
Since ATI were taken over AMD, Linux support should have got better. Have you checked their website? An old HP with ATI chip worked well with ATI drivers. This does depend of course of the drivers are available for your particulae chip.
I tryed to install the propietary Catalyst driver for my ATI Radeon HD 4670, because fglrx rpm package is not available, and I got some errors (with the current kernel source, gcc, make and all this stuff inbstalled): Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version default:v2:x86_64:lib::none:2.6.34-12-desktop:; make sure that the version is being correctly set by --iscurrentdistro Later I copied from my 11.2 install /lib/modules/fglrx and then tryed to build the fglrx package: /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod # ./make.sh AMD kernel module generator version 2.1 cat: /lib/modules/2.6.34-12-desktop/build/include/linux/utsrelease.h: No existe el fichero o el directorio Error: kernel includes at /lib/modules/2.6.34-12-desktop/build/include do not match current kernel. they are versioned as "" instead of "2.6.34-12-desktop". you might need to adjust your symlinks: - /usr/include - /usr/src/linux They are some discrepances, betwen the package version, and the kernel version: The kernel package appear as kernel-desktop-2.6.34-12.3, but in the kernel directories, appear as 2.6.34-12-desktop And in the files, the version of the kernel, is unclear: /usr/src/linux-2.6.34-12-obj/x86_64/desktop/include/linux> cat version.h #define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 132642 #define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c)) Then the ATI Catalyst can not know the real version of the kernel. Regards -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org