I have been out of the linux realm for a while now and have just installed OpenSuse 11.0. I am a little perplexed at a few things. I tried to set my video resolution and found it didnt change. I seen some articles about updating the nvidia drivers and tried to do that but found I didnt have gcc. I downloaded that and tried to get that going but found there are no c compilers or so it said. I admit I am rusty but any assistance in getting things up to speed here would be so greatly appreciated. Thanx…
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NVIDIA - openSUSE
If this method does not work for you, remove anything installed, packages and repo’s for nVidia
and do:
Alright so here is how to install the nvidia driver manually, in case the one in the repo doesn’t work or u just want to use the latest.
Go to Yast>Software>Software Management
Search for and install if you don’t have these:
make
gcc
kernel-source
Now download the latest Nvidia driver:
Place the file in your /home/username
Now restart and at the boot screen, pause the boot by moving the down button, then move back up and clear any text in the boot arguments by holding backspace. Then just type the number: 3
At the login
Type “root” then enter and then your root password and press enter.
now type
cd /home/username
*Now remember you can use the {TAB} key to auto complete
so type:
sh NVIDIA{TAB}
and the whole file name should auto complete
eg: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.09-pkg1.run
Follow the installer and let it compile the kernel module for you.
Say Yes to everything
Use TAB to move around
reboot