Installing Nvidia 6100

[caf4926]

The command switched your video over to vesa, a very basic display.

You can delete all installed packages in nvidia repo and start again. You will probably have to mark all packages to delete before it stops throwing errors at you. Just close the error each time until all are checked to delete.

From Software Management - filter by repo and select nvidia
and just look for and check

x11-video-nvidiaG02-180.51....

Once you click that all the other dependencies should be picked up.

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Or. Download the correct driver from nvidia and install manually as I listed earlier.

[dhdarka]

OK. How do I install manually? I'm going to download NVIDIA x86-185.18.10-pkg1.run. I have install manually in ubuntu. But I taking a guess that installing stuff manually in suse is way different form ubuntu way. Can anyone tell me how to install nvidia driver manually?

[caf4926]

I posted instructions here earlier:
Installing Nvidia 6100 - openSUSE Forums

Get the nvidia driver from here: Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers

save it to your /home/username as the instructions suggest.

[dhdarka]

Installing has failed. Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'. This is what it give me. And yes I install both gcc
and kernel-source.

And this is what the nvidia-installer.log tell me.

nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Tue Jun  2 13:12:21 2009
installer version: 1.0.7

option status:
  license pre-accepted    : false
  update                  : false
  force update            : false
  expert                  : false
  uninstall               : false
  driver info             : false
  precompiled interfaces  : true
  no ncurses color        : false
  query latest version    : false
  OpenGL header files     : true
  no questions            : false
  silent                  : false
  no recursion            : false
  no backup               : false
  kernel module only      : false
  sanity                  : false
  add this kernel         : false
  no runlevel check       : false
  no network              : false
  no ABI note             : false
  no RPMs                 : false
  no kernel module        : false
  force SELinux           : default
  no X server check       : false
  no cc version check     : false
  force tls               : (not specified)
  X install prefix        : (not specified)
  X library install path  : (not specified)
  X module install path   : (not specified)
  OpenGL install prefix   : (not specified)
  OpenGL install libdir   : (not specified)
  utility install prefix  : (not specified)
  utility install libdir  : (not specified)
  doc install prefix      : (not specified)
  kernel name             : (not specified)
  kernel include path     : (not specified)
  kernel source path      : (not specified)
  kernel output path      : (not specified)
  kernel install path     : (not specified)
  proc mount point        : /proc
  ui                      : (not specified)
  tmpdir                  : /tmp
  ftp mirror              : ftp://download.nvidia.com
  RPM file list           : (not specified)

Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> License accepted.
-> Installing NVIDIA driver version 185.18.10.
-> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li
   ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f
   rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes)
-> No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp site;
   this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for
   your kernel.
ERROR: Unable to find the development tool `make` in your path; please make
       sure that you have the package 'make' installed.  If make is installed
       on your system, then please check that `make` is in your PATH.
ERROR: Installation has failed.  Please see the file
       '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details.  You may find suggestions
       on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux
       driver download page at www.nvidia.com.

I think there one or more to download. Before I can install the nvidia.

[caf4926]

Unable to find the development tool `make` in your path;

Do you have 'make' installed?

From my directions:

Search for and install if you don't have these:

make
gcc
kernel-source
Now download the latest Nvidia driver:

[dhdarka]

Woot. I just need to install that 'make'. Then I was good. Question. How do I install libs in the terminal? ubuntu dose there like this 'sudo apt-get install lib...' So how does suse dose there?

[caf4926]

How do I install libs

Could you be more specific. What libs?

[dhdarka]

Let say I want to install "libxrandr-dev" in the terminal.
How can I do that?

Remember, I want to get this install in the terminal only!

[Knurpht]

Right now is the moment to start reading. See that you get to understand what you have through the Graphic User Interface. READ READ READ.
You're not "in the terminal" you're in the console. And you're only going one way: down. You want to do things on an expert level while you have barely started. Start first, get to know your desktop, Yast etc. For now installing a driver was quite a problem already, this is not the area where you learn.
These would do what you want:

su -c 'zypper in libxrandr-dev'
su -c 'rpm -iUvh libxrandr-dev'

But then "libxrandr-dev" would have to exist in the repos you configured.

[caf4926]

I'm inclined to agree with @Knurpht

Stop already.
Most everything you need can be added via software management in Yast.

Eg; Let's say you want to get muti-media setup and working. Follow this guide CAREFULLY.
Multi-media and Restricted Format Installation Guide - openSUSE Forums