can't install legacy nvidia driver

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#1

i tried installing the driver through the one click install (SDB:NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE) and through zipper, but system info says that the display driver is nouveau. here are my specs

opensuse 11.4
RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro

#2

So, you could download and install the driver the hard way if you wished. For the TNT2 64 bit, this is supposed to be the correct driver:

NVIDIA - Download Drivers

Here is a write up on what the hard way means, please read first:

SDB:NVIDIA the hard way - openSUSE

Don’t forget to undo anything you may have tried, like adding in nVIDIA repositories. A couple of things that you do want to do is to add in the kernel load option nomodeset and to use the NO-KMS-IN_INITRD=Yes /etc/sysconfig option. These two settings should prevent the nouveau driver from loading and must be done before you can install the downloaded video driver.

I have a bash script file that can help install the driver the hard way located here:

LNVHW - Load NVIDIA (driver the) Hard Way from runlevel 3

Message #12 has the most recent version of lnvhw and good luck.

Thank You,

#3

how do you do console login?>

#4

Just log out of any desktop sessions, and at the login screen either hit Alt-N and confirm, or hit Crtl+Alt+F1. Then give username (‘root’ if you are installing graphics drivers) and password.

#5

Hi ! I have similar problem with GeForce FX 5200 (0x0322), I have no problem log in as root in console but the directory of NVIDIA cant be find when I follow this instruction SDB:NVIDIA the hard way - openSUSE
I have also tried with one click install without any success
MB is Asus P4C 800E Delux with Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz and 2GB Ram
OpenSuse 11.4 32Bit and Swedish Language

Best regards // Jan

#6

Hey,

Don’t waste your time trying anything like installing nvidia legacy drivers. I have a TNT2 32 megs and I confirm you that those drivers ARE Not compatible with current suse releases.

**Hi,

I am using a P3 800 MHZ with 512 megs of Rams, running opensuse 12.1 … Here is the full output to lspci :

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C693A/694x [Apollo PRO133x] (rev c4)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598/694x [Apollo MVP3/Pro133x AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 ISA [Mobile South] (rev 23)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 11)
00:07.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C596 Power Management (rev 30)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20)
00:11.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-744B [DS-1S Audio Controller] (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV5M64 [RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro] (rev 15)

I have successfully installed the “NVIDIA-Linux-x86-71.86.15-pkg1.run” for the RIVA TNT2 but I wasn’t able to access any options at all when running nvidia-settings (it said that NVCONTROL was missing). I then attempted to download the version corresponding nvidia-settings package for the video card (nvidia-settings-1.0)… I had to modify “makefile” to remove “fpedantic” because it gave me the following error "cc1: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-fpedantic’ " …I then ran ‘make install’ and it returned the following error :

src/libXNVCtrlAttributes/NvCtrlAttributesVidMode.c:207:9: error: ‘prev_error_handler’ undeclared (first use in this function)
src/libXNVCtrlAttributes/NvCtrlAttributesVidMode.c:207:9: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
make: *** .objs/NvCtrlAttributesVidMode.o] Error 1

I then edited NvCtrlAttributesVidMode.c and deleted ‘prev_error_handler’ at lign 207.

Ran ‘make install’ once again. Went further than the first time, but it then displayed me the following error :

/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.6/…/…/…/…/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lXxf86vm
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.6/…/…/…/…/i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lXv

Looking at makefile in libXNVCtrl, I found the following while searching for lXv and lXxf86vm

USRLIBDIR = /usr/lib
LINTLIBDIR = $(USRLIBDIR)/lint
LINTXV = $(LINTLIBDIR)/llib-lXv.ln
LINTXXF86VM = $(LINTLIBDIR)/llib-lXxf86vm.ln

Problem is, there is no such directory as /usr/lib/lint

xorg-x11-devel and xorg-x11-libXv-devel are installed

Thank you in advance for your help**

Daniel Dadap ddadap@nvidia.com to me, linux-bugs

Hello Guillaume,

The newest video driver ABI supported by the 71.86.xx drivers is version 2. The most recent X server with that ABI version is Xorg server 1.3. openSUSE 12.1 has Xorg server 1.10, with video driver ABI version 10.

**Hi!

What would be the latest x server supported by the 71.86.xx driver ?

Thanks**

show details Dec 19 (2 days ago)

Hello Guillaume,

The newest video driver ABI supported by the 71.86.xx drivers is version 2. The most recent X server with that ABI version is Xorg server 1.3. openSUSE 12.1 has Xorg server 1.10, with video driver ABI version 10.

Here’s the link where I posted :
http://forums.opensuse.org/forums/english/get-technical-help-here/hardware/469913-cannot-configure-nvidia-settings-proprietary-driver-tnt2-agp-32-megs.html

Have a nice day!