I wouldn't agree Curtis. I've advocated getting the tar.gz files for the longest time and I've not had any issues. I put them in /usr/src/packages/SOURCES and just untar them and do a make. You don't have to go through all that hardship of rebooting and the like. What I do is this. A. I don't use KDM ;) B. Exit X C. rmmod NVdriver (I've renamed NVdriver to NVdriver.o so that it's seen properly). D. cd into the new km dir and do the make. E. cd into /lib/modules/<kernel version directory> and mv NVdriver to NVdriver.o then I execute 'insmod NVdriver' and it loads the new km. F. cd into the GLX dir and do the make. Which should make the correct links and overwrite the current version which is in these directories. 1. Please make sure that all references to the switch2 scripts have been removed from /etc/rc.config because this will screw the last 2 versions of nVidia's GLX because they changed stuff and their make file makes the symlinks so the switch2 scripts are woefully out of date as far as this is concerned. G. Go back into X. :) Remember that you really shouldn't have to reboot unless you've replaced the kernel or you are going to do surgery on the hardware. :) Most everything is fixable without rebooting. Sorry I wasn't paying attention to the earlier thread when this new driver was released..I've been busy as hell lately. :) Cheers! * Curtis Rey (crrey@charter.net) [020406 22:28]: ::Well, I got them working from source. I just manually deleted any old ::drivers for the /usr/lib/GL, and then just to make sure I ran "rpm -e ::NVIDIA_GLX". Then I rebooted to "init 3" and ran the "tar xfvz" of both ::packages, and cd'ed into their respective dir's and ran "make install". ::rebooted and ran Sax2 to see if it would run, it did. Then I booted into X ::and took the lines from my previous XF86Config file and pasted them into the ::new config file. Logged out of kde, restarted X, and no problems since. ::I suggest using the source/tar.gz files. Hopefully this will get you up and ::running. I don't know what the problem is, but I had to install the 2802 ::packages the same way. I think that SuSE is in a state of transition ::regarding the file sys/dir layout and this has alot to do with the problems ::I'm having. :: ::Cheers, Curtis. :: :: :: ::On Saturday 06 April 2002 08:07, Brian Marr wrote: ::> Suse 7.1 kernel 2.4.17 kde 2.2.2 XF86-4.2.0 Riva TNT ::> ::> I have similar results with ::> NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2802.suse71.i386.rpm ::> NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2880.suse71.i386.rpm ::> ::> Including the "No Screens found" error. ::> ::> Brian Marr ::> ::> On Saturday 06 April 2002 13:58, you wrote: ::> > In my case the Kernel module won't initialize and it also says no valid ::> > screen found. I ran "sax2 -m 0=nvidia" and sax can't intialize either, ::> > tells me to instal mesasoft package. ::> > ::> > Something obviously isn't getting configed right for the kernel. My ::> > kernel is the default 2.4.16-4GB kernal for 7.3. I had a bit of a ::> > problem with the version before this, but it was related to GLX drivers ::> > and symlinks. I compile the source and made a few of my own symlinks and ::> > they worked. I just reinstall the 2802 drivers from source and it works. ::> > I know that SuSE has changes some of the sys config files to be put into ::> > 8.0 (e.g. change in the /etc files). I wonder if this isn't a case of ::> > the packages being configed for this environment by mistake. ::> > ::> > ::> > Cheers, Curtis ::> > ::> > On Friday 05 April 2002 17:29, RR wrote: ::> > > i tried the new drivers from nvidia today and if i try to load glx it ::> > > fails :: ::-- ::To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com ::For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com ::Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com :: -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC --=====-----=====--