Re: [opensuse] legacy rpms

Carlos E. R. wrote:

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.

Thanks Carlos and Dave.
I found this installer guide
http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html
because the ftp site above downloaded an empty file.
These documents talk about the typical x86 chips and an AMD64 but I have an AMD Athlon XP2800+
and there are two installers for the legacy chipsets, one called
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-71.86.01-pkg1.run

which looks like a x86 version and

NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-71.86.01-pkg2.run

which looks like the AMD64 version.

Do you suppose that the installer will tell me if it can't find the correct source against which to compile the module?


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