On 17/05/12 17:21, Philipp Thomas wrote:
On 05/17/2012 03:15 AM, george olson wrote:
I just recently installed a proprietary nvidia driver on my desktop and I had to make sure that I had kernel-source and kernel-devel installed in order to rebuild the kernel using the nvidia utility. Why don't you use the driver rpm available? You just have to add the nvidia software repository.
Because I have this repo enabled and when I do "zypper up" and a new version of the kernel is installed, the nvidia driver from this repo does nothing - it isn't even updated during the same "zypper up" process - and I have to install the driver from the nVidia site. To avoid all this crap, I simply just install the nVidia driver using "sh NVIDIA*". Saves a lot of angst. [..........] BC -- Using openSUSE 12.1 x86_64 KDE on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org