11.4 - Cannot install nvidia driver

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#1

Nvidia h/w: Quadro FX 570

Installed 11.4 yesterday. No problems. Installed Gnome 3 today and it goes into fallback mode. Assuming that the graphics driver might be the culprit, I attempted to install the latest nvidia driver.

Added repo ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.4/ in Yast2.

Did a refresh and it complains that it cannot access installation media at the above. Paste the above in Firefox and it gets there OK.

One-click method also fails.

Never had a problem with updating nvidia driver before. Not sure what to check. I did delete and add with no success.

BTW, the other defined repos in Yast2 work fine.

#2

Hi
I believe that there were some issues with the downloads yesterday, maybe it’s gone corrupt… Have you updated the kernel to the latest - 2.6.37.6-0.7?

Anyway, you need to install the Nvidia Driver 280.13 version as it fixes a bug in GNOME 3.0, so may want to install via the hard way?

#3

Wasn’t aware of the download issues. Have the latest kernel. Will try the hard way.

#4

Installed the nVidia 280.13 driver the hard way. Now Gnome3 is working in standard mode.

Thanks Malcolm