Re: [opensuse] How to upgrade my kernel?

good point you brought up here. i don't know if they changed it in the release version but the latest version of the nvidia driver installer wasn't working with 2.6.36 and i had to extract it and edit(comment out) this one line of code about ioctls to get it to work. hopefully nvidia has come out with a new version.

--- On Tue, 11/2/10, Bob Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Bob Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [opensuse] How to upgrade my kernel?
To: opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2010, 7:15 AM
On Tuesday 02 Nov 2010 07:59:55 Mark
Goldstein wrote:
On 11/2/10, James D. Parra <jamesp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
...

If you downloaded the NVidia driver you only need
to rerun from the CLI.

For example, as root run
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.12.run (or the
package you used to install previously). You'll
need to run 'init 3'
first.

If you want NVIDIA driver to be used for a number of
kernels, install
it once and then for additional kernel use
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.12.run -K - it will add
driver module for
this kernel and will not mess with X.

Also, instead of init 3 you can just type 3 in boot
options (on the
boot-up screen).
Many thanks, guys. See my [SOLVED] reply later in the
thread. I am aware of
init 5, rather than rebooting after building the nvidia
drivers, to get back
to the GUI, but, what the heck, it's the way I did it. ;)

Bob
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