Installing Nvidia Drivers In Suse

Last week I upgraded my Suse Professional 9.3 to open Suse 10.0 using the super easy DVD. I naturally got a nice frame buffer display by default with my Ge Force FX 5900 Ultra graphics board. Then I proceeded to download the proper Nvidia Installer from nVidia.org But--------- I ran into 4 long days of trying unsucessfully to instal the package. I finally discovered that Suse Yast2 had installed only 2 kernel packages and not the kernel development package which is responsible for linking the source files to the installer program. Nothing in the installer could tell me that--??? So I installed the kernel development package, ran the installer from nVidia, and in about 40 seconds everything was hunky dory. So read up and remember. JM

Last week I upgraded my Suse Professional 9.3 to open Suse 10.0 using the super easy DVD. I naturally got a nice frame buffer display by default with my Ge Force FX 5900 Ultra graphics board. Then I proceeded to download the proper Nvidia Installer from nVidia.org But--------- I ran into 4 long days of trying unsucessfully to instal the package. I finally discovered that Suse Yast2 had installed only 2 kernel packages and not the kernel development package which is responsible for linking the source files to the installer program. Nothing in the installer could tell me that--??? So I installed the kernel development package, ran the installer from nVidia, and in about 40 seconds everything was hunky dory. So read up and remember. JM
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Your the man!I have been ready to go bald over installing my fx5500 in Suse.So flustered that I reinstalled several times.Many thanks for sharing.
Pregister

Last week I upgraded my Suse Professional 9.3 to open Suse 10.0 using the super easy DVD. I naturally got a nice frame buffer display by default with my Ge Force FX 5900 Ultra graphics board. Then I proceeded to download the proper Nvidia Installer from nVidia.org But--------- I ran into 4 long days of trying unsucessfully to instal the package. I finally discovered that Suse Yast2 had installed only 2 kernel packages and not the kernel development package which is responsible for linking the source files to the installer program. Nothing in the installer could tell me that--??? So I installed the kernel development package, ran the installer from nVidia, and in about 40 seconds everything was hunky dory. So read up and remember. JM
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Do you happen to recall the exact name for the 'Kernel development Package' that needs to be installed before attempting to install NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg2.run ???


TyR

Do you happen to recall the exact name for the 'Kernel development Package' that needs to be installed before attempting to install NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12-pkg2.run ???
TyR
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Mostly you need these(to build programs and drivers from a source) ;

kernel-source
gcc
make

But it you switch the view in Software Management from search to patterns there is a Kernel Development category in there... maybe thats the one that got ticked?

Cheers,
Wj

Why did you bother to upgrade just to 10.0? If you upgraded to 10.3, you could do a simple one click install of the package from the web site?