Re: [opensuse] API mismatch for NVIDIA driver and kernel module

On 05/17/2012 11:44 AM, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
On 05/16/12 21:15, george olson pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

I just recently installed a proprietary nvidia driver on my desktop and
I had to make sure that I had kernel-source and kernel-devel installed
in order to rebuild the kernel using the nvidia utility.

It seems that you have 3 choices for a driver. You can try and use the
opensuse nvidia repository and make sure the driver works from there, or
you can try to install the nouveau driver, which is happily used by many
people here, or you can look into how to install the proprietary driver
that matches your nvidia graphics card, which will require a kernel
rebuild

Kernel rebuild is _not_ required to install any Nvidia driver from any
source.


I stand corrected :) After a kernel update the Nvidia module has to be rebuilt by running the command: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-....

This is also done on the first installation of the proprietary Nvidia driver.

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