* Philipp Thomas <pthomas@suse.de> (Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 10:00:19AM +0200)
- Curtis Rey [Mon, 23 Apr 2001 13:06:35 -0500]:
I've tried to load the drivers using both the SuSE/YaST method in the FAQ and nVidia's methods (rpm -Uhv NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769.suse71.i386.rpm --nodeps --force and rpm -Uhv NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769.suse71.i386.rpm --force, which worked great with the 2.2.18 and 2.4.0-4GB kernels) but it says after issueing the command "switch2nvidia_glx" and then "gears" it says that the '/dev/nvidiaactl' is not present - even though it is.
I missed the first part of this. But I can say that I have Nvidia up and runnign with a 2.4.3 kernel. However *IF* you have a 2.4.X kernel that is *NOT* 2.4.0-4GB then you need to install from the nvidia src rpm. (install new kernel, boot new kernel, unpack src rpm, type make). It's detailed on NVidia';s website.
It makes you wonder, since they were the first to release the 2.4 kernel, that this was more a marketing ploy to boost sales.
That's not quite correct. Would we have left it out, people would have complained just as well. Everybody knows that a Linux kernel just out the door can't be that stable as the previous stable version and the rather fast release of updates clearly shows it. 2.4.X just isn't the best kernel of all times. It might get there, but it's not yet.
Well I know that we've eagerly wawaited the 2.4 kernel and that'we're very happy Suse had it on 7.1. Apart from some reiserfs problems (extremely annoying, but now fixed, hence the 2.4.3 kernel Im running l;) ) it rocks.
And, like it or not, almost all new software/packages are made for RH before almost any other distro.
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