On Sunday 07 Oct 2007, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Saturday 06 October 2007 22.14.17 ianseeks wrote:
hi
Has anyone managed to get X running when installing the closed Nvidia driver? I installed all (driver and kerner sources) via the community repo's etc and every time i load up after installed in the driver i end up at the command prompt. I assume the driver is not matched to the kernel. Any ideas?
I have the same problem. I added the nvidia repo by selecting it in yast. It installed. I see that /etc/X11/xorg.conf had the driver changed from nv to nvidia (no X until I changed back to nv - I always keep a copy of xorg.conf when fiddling here). However, none of the kernel drivers were made or loaded. Even after a reboot. I see a few programs (nvidia-bug-report.sh nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig). I don't think I saw the install script that I am used to using.
I usually install the nvidia driver from the command line. I thought I would try the YAST method in 10.3. I still want this to work so it keeps up-to-date when I (via Yast or smart) update the kernel.
Otherwise. 10.3 seems like a keeper. When I sort out a few compile issues with our product (v4l2 and MSVC++ via CrossOver Office), I think we will start testing for moving from 10,0 to 10.3.
I followed Lior's advice and went to the opensuse site and put "nvidia" into the search and it gave a very helpful page, this is the text for what to do for openSUSE 10.3 "You can use 1-Click-Install in openSUSE 10.3. For all new NVIDIA cards, click here: nvidia.ymp For all NVIDIA Legacy cards, click here: nvidia-legacy.ymp" There are links in these 2 lines. It worked perfectly and it now looks wonderful. So it begs the question, why have the communiy repos for nvidia if you can;t install it that way. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org