On Sat, 05 May 2012 13:42:37 +0530, George Olson
On 05/05/2012 03:31 PM, phanisvara das wrote:
On Sat, 05 May 2012 11:48:47 +0530, Robin Klitscher
wrote: Another reason would be that the repo versions can lag the ones on the nVidia site.
either that, or for your hardware or kernel or whatever you need an older version, that's not supplied in the repos anymore.
that "hared way" isn't hard at all, and it allows you to choose whichever driver you want, when you want.
Ok I downloaded the nvidia driver that supports my card. I installed make, gcc, and kernel source. Then I blacklisted the nouveau driver by adding nvidia.conf to /etc/modprobe.d/ and putting in the 2 lines: blacklist nouveau options nouveau modeset=0
I also made sure I had linux-glibc-devel installed.
After that, I booted to run level 3, cd'd to the /root/ directory where the driver is stored, and ran sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-285.05.09.run
This ran in the terminal at run level 3 and then I got an error: ERROR: The kernel header file '/usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h' does not exist. The most likely reason for this is that the kernel source files in '/usr/src/linux' have not been configured.
So the installation failed. Any advice?
which kernel version are you running? newer than default kernels need patches in order to be able to compile the nvidia driver. larry finger kindly prepared those and shares them here: http://www.lwfinger.com/nvidia_patches/ you find sporadic discussion & explanation of this in this forum thread: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/pre-release-beta/... -- phani. PS: sorry for the accidental private reply. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org