Talk:NVIDIA

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Are the steps for 10.2 really accurate? I followed them exactly, and X wouldn't start after that. I had to edit xorg.conf, go to the Device section and rename "nvidia" to "nv", startx, then simply go to nvidia.com and download the drivers there, and install the manually. That actually worked out quite well. -- samh1974 05:26, 15 Feb 2007 (CST)

Legacy drivers

The Section on legacy drivers does not address 10.2. Does 10.2 support the installation of legacy drivers? After installing 10.2, I followed the Nvidia Installation Guide to install a NVIDIA Legacy driver (7182). (I had already installed a Legacy driver on a machine running 10.1, so I thought I knew what I was doing.) When I tried to execute the installation file (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7182-pkg1.run) using the sh command, the software attempted to compile against my kernel (2.6.18.8-0.3) but reported that it could not find the kernel source. I couldn't either, so I installed the source myself (yast2 -i kernel-source). I found kernel.h, the kernel source file that the installation file looks for, and supplied its path to the installation file using the --kernel-source-path command line option. The installation software returned the message "Unable to determine version of source" and aborted. H

I would guess that you did one step too much and with a wrong path. You used standard installation procedure and kernel is installed in standard directory (on any Linux) /usr/src/linux that nvidia installer knows about, so option --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux is not necessary.

Second problem might be that you have to run as root

cd /usr/src/linux
make cloneconfig 
make prepare

Newer driver installers do this, older don't. --Rajko M 15:16, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Check Installation in 10.3

How can I check if the installation was successfull in 10.3? Still if it shows the Nvidia logo on startup?--Zukunftcom 10:20, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Uninstallation

The uninstallation instructions aren’t optimal:

• the rpm grep does not suffice, since the package fusion-icon must be uninstalled as well
• sax2 -a does not necessarily do as expected; I had to do nvidia-xconfig to get things right.

It is probably easier to point people to YaST, tell them to uninstall compiz/compiz-fusion and let it do the settings, then restart X server. Hamaryns 14:51, 22 February 2008 (UTC)