On Tuesday 09 August 2005 18:42, Peter Nikolic wrote:
On Wednesday 10 August 2005 00:26, Donn Washburn wrote:
You will also need a completely configured kernel source for NVidia's file to run You might also check subfs in /usr/src/kernel-modules
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Say WHAAAAAAA! if it is a stock SUSE keernel you need to do NO SUCH THING AT ALL .
if you play with fire with the kernel.org kernels then maybe but the stock suse upgrades do not need touching at all install all four kernel update files then you need do nothing but what i said previousley as i have been doing for too long to remember ..
cd to the place you have the driver stored the for suse 9.2 do " ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7667-pkg1.run -q" accept the driver answer yes to
What you said previously: the
rest of the questions about the installed driver , Driver installs then " init 5" bingo X and KDE or the other one up and running if you had a previous NVIDIA driver installed there is NO NEED for the sax2 bit (that always fails big time for me any how so i hand brew things )
That didn't work for me with the latest upgrade. When I executed the file NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7667-pkg1.run it said there was no matching driver found and offered to compile it for me -- which worked just fine. I am running the SMP kernel. Don't know if that is why it couldn't find the driver. # uname -a Linux paulsen 2.6.11.4-21.8-smp #1 SMP Tue Jul 19 12:42:37 UTC 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux If you examine the executable you will see that it is a script file with some binary drivers embedded into it. The text portion of the file lists the supported kernels and the list doesn't include the latest SuSE kernel (smp or not). The script then checks the Nvidia ftp server and can't find it there either. For the compile to work, you do need to first install the kernel source and do the following, as root: # cd /usr/src/linux # make cloneconfig # make prepare