Will adding nvidia repository in suse 11.1 enable yast driver download?

sirius57 · 04-07-2009, 08:11 PM

I installed the 64 bit opensuse 11.1 on my box. It has the geforce 6200 card. If I add the nvidia repository to yast, will I get the correct driver installed? I am not sure if the geforce 6200 is now considered legacy, so I don't want the most recent driver installed.

mtdew3q · 04-07-2009, 08:57 PM

hi-

here are 2 links that should help.
http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA#openSUSE_11.1_and_11.0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_6_series

i am guessing you can 1 click this by clicking the green button
but please check the 2 links and make your own final decision.

have a cool night,
3rdshiftcoder

sirius57 · 04-08-2009, 07:43 PM

It worked great. I picked the first link and it installed without a problem. After rebooting, saw the nvidia splash screen and ran a 3-d game. I do have an extra entry in the grub menu. The entry starts with 'trace- opensuse...'. This is the entry that now boots 11.1. Can the old entry be deleted from the menu.lst file?