Re: [SLE] SuSE Professional 9 and NVidia

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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 00:39:22 -0700

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On Monday October 13 2003 00:05, James Ogley wrote:
> > Does anyone know of any issues that have to do with the SUSE LINUX
> > Professional 9 and NVidia driver, and what versions of the NVidia
> > drivers will work with it?
>
> Given that the nVidia drivers are packaged up as an executable installer
> now, rather than as RPMs, I would guess the latest version will probably
> install just fine when YOU downloads it at the end of the install.
> --
> James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk
> http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net
> Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2).
> GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

Ok, at the SuSE ftp site, in the supplementary/XFree86 directory is a howto
file that give directions on how to do this. I had to goto great lengths
during beta testing to get this work at first. But after the updates/fixes
is was much easier.

Furthermore, the config of 3rd party modules has been changed to accomodate
stuff like the nvidia drivers and kernel updates in order to make it easier
to actually update the kernel without destroying the mods such as these so
you won't have to continually reinstall the drivers. How well it works I
couldn't say because the info was not completed when I was testing.

From:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/

nvidia-installer-HOWTO:

A. SuSE Linux 9.0
- -----------------

1) Kernel sources must be installed and configured. Usually this means
installing the 'kernel-source' package with YaST2.

2) Use the nvidia installer.

  sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run

3) Save the binary-part of nvidia kernel module, so the nvidia kernel
module can be re-linked during a kernel update and therefore the
nvidia driver installation will survive a future kernel update as
well.

  sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run --extract-only
  cp NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv-kernel.o \
    /lib/modules/scripts/nvidia/nv-kernel.o-1.0-4496

4) Enable 3D support with SaX2.

I am a bit niffed about the new website on this matter insofar as previously
one could look at a breakdown of packages for "professionals" on the SuSE
product page. So far I have not seen this in the new website format -
essentially little if any info other than market crap is on it - PITY (or
should I say PITA). So, looking into info about how the new kernal mods/3rd
party mods are handle, at least on a rudimentary level, is accessible AFAIK.

HTH, Curtis.
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