Nvidia drivers

[aaronmoore]

Greetings
I am trying to install a driver for Nvidia GeForce 7050 on an acer aspire m1641. In order to install suse 11.1 I booted it with noapic option to get graphics going,
I have done the one click install from opensuse/nvidia, but it did not work. /var/log/
invidia-installer.log says ERROR: unable to build the nvidia kernel module
Any help gratefuly received
Cheers
Aaron

[caf4926]

Some NVIDIA Basics - openSUSE Forums

If normal boot is not working - try failsafe, if you still can't login do the following:

Pause the boot by moving the down arrow, then back up to the default boot. But now press backspace, it should delete any text where you can see VGA=...etc


Remove all text and now type just the number:
3
and hit enter


at the login type your user name and then password
now type:
su
then the root password

Now type: yast
you can check what did or didn't get installed and correct it.

[aaronmoore]

Thaks for response, but still no joy. I now seem to have 4 different kernels listed on boot screen and the last one did not work at all, it kept returning to the boot screen.

[caf4926]

Boot to level 3 and login, then switch to su and start yast

remove all but default or PAE kernel, if you don't know which, choose PAE
then make sure you have the matching nvidia kernel module.

[aaronmoore]

Ok I have completely reloaded suse 11.1 and went straight to nvidia one click install, but it still does not work. I have GeForce 7050 graphics card and have installed:

Kernel-default
Kernel-default-base
Kernel-default-extra
Kernel-source
Kernel-syms
Kernel-trace
Kernel-trace-base
Kernel-trace-extra

Nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-default
x11-video-nvidiaG02

Is this right?
Thanx
Aaron

[deltaflyer44]

personally, & this is doing it the hard way, i install

kernel source
gcc/gcc++
make

& it works great

Andy

[caf4926]

Originally Posted by aaronmoore

Ok I have completely reloaded suse 11.1 and went straight to nvidia one click install, but it still does not work. I have GeForce 7050 graphics card and have installed:

Kernel-default
Kernel-default-base
Kernel-default-extra
Kernel-source
Kernel-syms


Nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-default
x11-video-nvidiaG02

Is this right?
Thanx
Aaron

The above edit is correct

I would include gcc, gcc++, make
as Andy suggests

[aaronmoore]

Thanks for replies
I have gcc, gcc++, make.
How can I check that the nvidia module is loaded?

[caf4926]

Did you manage to get the install the way I quoted above, without the trace modules?

Open a terminal and do: glxinfo

post result, just the top part, you'll see what I mean.

[aaronmoore]

glxinfo returns

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
0x21 16 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
0x3a 32 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None