Re: [opensuse] legacy rpms

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The Monday 2008-03-31 at 03:43 -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:

I've seen the instructions on the nvidia site and it looks like I need to compile a kernel. Did you find this to be true?

No, you don't.

You may need to have the kernel sources installed, with configuration equal to the running kernel (make cloneconfig prepare, I think). The nvidia installer will compile a kernel module if it needs it - never the entire kernel. And not you, but "him".

I was hoping to find some YAST-like solution that might allow me to install the driver as a module. I'm avoiding the kernel route because I cannot afford (right now) to break this installation.

Check if these instructions are still here:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/nvidia-installer-HOWTO

I think I have seen it somewhere on the wiki.




- -- Cheers,
Carlos E. R.

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