David Krider wrote :
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 10:47, dries wrote:
Is there a way for me to download the nVidia drivers at work (fast internet) and then use yast online update on a file at home so i don't have to download the (6MB) driver at home ??
I tried the online update thing to see how well it worked with 9.1, because it didn't work too well for me in 9.0. It didn't work well this time either. However, I don't think you'll have any trouble doing it the "hard" way. Just go to nVidia's site and download the driver for ia32, and run it as root. (Make sure that you have all the build tools installed, as it needs to relink to the current kernel.) After that, just use SaX2 as usual, but don't worry about checking off the "3D Acceleration" button. Just leave that alone. When you're done, edit /etc/X11/XF86Config, and change the driver that your card uses from "nv" to "nvidia". You should be all set.
Thanks for the reply, but my main reason to try to use Yast2 anyway is that i don't wanna have my kernel sources installed. Besides, i think it's still a bit weird that kernel sources are needed to just install a graphics driver (and by the way why does that have to be X megabytes ?). So, your mail has changed my mind, i think i will not upgrade and leave the 3D stuff for what it is. . . . Isn't there a RPM that install's the nVidia driver without all the problems and complexeties ? Or is that illegal with this closed source driver ?? Grtz Dries -- 01110111 01110111 01110111 00101110 01110000 01110010 01110101 01101001 01101101 01100010 01101111 01101111 01101101 00101110 01110100 01101011 <End of message>