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Download the nVidia driver from nVidia: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
Make sure you have kernel source installed and prepared:
cd /usr/src/linux
make cloneconfig
make prepare-all
and then install the nVidia driver. (as root in runlevel 3)
1) Kernel sources must be installed and configured. Usually this means
installing the 'kernel-source', 'make' and 'gcc' packages with YaST2.
Update it - if not already done - via YaST2 Online Update (YOU).
2) Use the nvidia installer for 1.0-7664.
modprobe agpgart
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7664-pkg2.run -q
3) Configure X.Org with
sax2 -m 0=nvidia (0 is a digit, not a letter!)
NOTE: There is no need to try to enable 3D support. It's already
enabled, when the nvidia driver is running.
Originally posted by LinuxVB Download the nVidia driver from nVidia: http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html
Make sure you have kernel source installed and prepared:
cd /usr/src/linux
make cloneconfig
make prepare-all
and then install the nVidia driver. (as root in runlevel 3)
1) Kernel sources must be installed and configured. Usually this means
installing the 'kernel-source', 'make' and 'gcc' packages with YaST2.
Update it - if not already done - via YaST2 Online Update (YOU).
2) Use the nvidia installer for 1.0-7664.
modprobe agpgart
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-7664-pkg2.run -q
3) Configure X.Org with
sax2 -m 0=nvidia (0 is a digit, not a letter!)
NOTE: There is no need to try to enable 3D support. It's already
enabled, when the nvidia driver is running.
Wow that seems very complicated
Isnt there a way to get it to do it via YOU easily?
Distribution: SUSE 9.0, 9.2, 10.0, Slackware 10.2 and slamd64
Posts: 135
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I prefer to install it by myself, it's not that complicated, maybe the way that LinuxVB explained to you. Follow this steps:
0- Go to yast and make sure you have installed the kernel-source
1- init 3 (as root)
2- rmmod nvidia
3- cd /usr/src/linux
4- make cloneconfig
5- make prepare-all
6- go to the folder where you have downloaded the driver from nvidia
7- sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run -q --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux
8- modprobe nvidia
9- sax2 -m 0=nvidia
If you still think that is VERY complicated, i know that there is a way to install it via YOU(but i never did it), this is from nvidia HOWTO:
"Inside YOU enable "Installable and Installed Patches" for "Show Patch
Category" and select "Download NVIDIA(r) Graphics Driver" from the
patches list (usually at the bottom of the list). Note, that you need
to mark it as "Update" (right mouse click) if you already installed it
before and the driver was uninstalled - for any reason. Proceed as
usual now. After YOU has finished restart your Xserver (i.e. logout
from your Xsession) and you're fine."
Originally posted by Lier I prefer to install it by myself, it's not that complicated, maybe the way that LinuxVB explained to you. Follow this steps:
0- Go to yast and make sure you have installed the kernel-source
1- init 3 (as root)
2- rmmod nvidia
3- cd /usr/src/linux
4- make cloneconfig
5- make prepare-all
6- go to the folder where you have downloaded the driver from nvidia
7- sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run -q --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux
8- modprobe nvidia
9- sax2 -m 0=nvidia
If you still think that is VERY complicated, i know that there is a way to install it via YOU(but i never did it), this is from nvidia HOWTO:
"Inside YOU enable "Installable and Installed Patches" for "Show Patch
Category" and select "Download NVIDIA(r) Graphics Driver" from the
patches list (usually at the bottom of the list). Note, that you need
to mark it as "Update" (right mouse click) if you already installed it
before and the driver was uninstalled - for any reason. Proceed as
usual now. After YOU has finished restart your Xserver (i.e. logout
from your Xsession) and you're fine."
Hope this help-
Thank you for the info, I tried doing it with YOU, and I did it the way you said and the system seems to think it is installed, but when I got to turn it on in SAX it seems to think I dont have it!
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