* Bob Williams
3. Build and install the Nvidia drivers.
On the Nvidia website - http://www.nvidia.co.uk/page/home.html - click on 'Download Drivers', enter the details of your graphics card, and download the driver. This will be in the form a shell script, such as NVIDIA-Linux- x86_64-260.19.12.run. (The name will differ if you've selected the 32 bit driver). Save it wherever you like, then make it executable (chmod +x <filename>).
Reboot the computer, selecting the new 2.6.36 kernel. Graphics mode will fail, and you will be left at a console login prompt. Login as root, then cd to the directory containing the Nvidia script. Type:
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.12.run or whatever your file was called.
Agree to the licence, then accept all the options offered. The final stage is to ask if you want the script to run nvidia-xconfig for you. The default is No, but I would recommend answering yes here, as you will only have to do this later anyway.
Running nvidia-xconfig generates an xorg.conf file which is only necessary if you have intentions or necessities requiring hand editing of it. I always accept the default/"no" option.
Reboot again (:~ # shutdown -r now), and you should be back into a graphical environment.
Also not necessary, you should be in runlevel 3. You can just issue "startx" from the same console command line which will start the graphic system in runlevel 3, or as root issue "init 5" which will start the graphic system in runlevel 5. ps: very good synopsis, please add it to the wiki. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org