David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
The NVidia 1-click install at "http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA" is currently broken. I removed the fglrx kernel module, shut down, pulled an ATI card, installed the 8800GT, booted to runlevel 3, sax2 failed as is usual of late (more at the end) but I was able to coble together a basic xorg and then went for the nVidia 1-click install. It failed. 5 months ago it worked just fine. Today, there were two glaring problems:
(1) It was unable to add/load the download.nvidia.com/opensuse/10.3 repository during the 1-click install;
I then went and manually added the nvidia repository and started the 1-click install again. Problem, it said it completed "Successfully", but:
(2) It failed to create an xorg.conf and failed to load the nvidia kernel module. (The xorg.conf was still the ATI conf)
For someone new, this would have been the death-nail. Luckily using I modprobed the kernel module, use lspci to ID the bus and with an xorg.conf from a second machine I was able to put a working xorg.conf together for the nvidia card.
General sax2 failure: using sax2 -m 0=nvidia crashed each time with no screens available. running "sax2" left the xorg configured with the ATI "radeon" driver. Regardless of what I seem to need to do with sax2 lately, it regularly fails.
Just a heads up.
PS -- NO I won't file a 10th bug report to simply have it closed by Novell as INV because it relates to a 3rd party graphics card driver. If you want to try your luck, feel free. Somebody needs to fix this.
The nVidia repo for 11.0 has been broken for two days now. It refreshes and downloads repo files but can't find the rpms. I changed the http to ftp and it now works. Regards Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org