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Old 10-Jul-2009, 14:41
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Default Re: how do I test if my Nvid drivers are installed?

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Originally Posted by oldcpu View Post
I found for my nvidia GTX 260 that I have to use the proprietary nVidia driver in order to get any decent performance. The openGL driver is horribly slow for the GTX260, and the vesa driver is not much better for the GTX 260.

There is guidance here: NVIDIA - openSUSE

In my case, I prefered to do it per the titel "the hardway" - which leads one here: NVIDIA/The hard way - openSUSE

Note one needs linux-kernel-headers, kernel-source and kernel-syms installed, plus the base development pattern (in YaST software management) installed, for this to work.
I didn't have any of those installed ( I forgot about that) and tried to install it told me that I had an xserver open so I did a ctrl-alt-f1 and tryied from there it said the same thing. also rereading the instructions ( the hard way) it says that I need make but I cannot find it I can find automake.
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