installed OpenSuse 11.4 milestone 3 on HP8440p notebook - looks good no hickups. Almost the same on my older desktop but couldn’t get the proprietary nvidia driver to install. Yast says there’s no directions for this version of opensuse. NVidia driver install works for 11.2 but with 11.3 I can’t log in.
Intel driver looks like it’s really fixed for the 8440p with 11.3 & 11.4. Just wish I could install the 1-click nvidia driver on the older desktop with 11.4…no 3d on that box.
Milestones are testing-/development releases. You have to install the NVIDIA driver ‘the hard way’, i.e. download it from NVIDIA, install the Linux Kernel Development Pattern, and run the driver’s installer to compile the driver for your kernel. The kernels change for every Milestone, NVIDIA does not provide precompiled drivers for beta and sub-beta releases.
FWIW, I installed the NVIDIA drivers “the hard way” today and it’s not so bad. I just followed the directions here: SDB:NVIDIA the hard way - openSUSE
I did not have to do this: Disable Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) and the driver install blacklisted the nouveau driver. One thing they don’t say is that after the nouveau driver is blacklisted you need to reboot and run the installer again. Then it will complete and you’re golden. I have full desktop effects and all that swell stuff.
I succesfully installed proprietary nvidia driver with 11.4. distro as well. Ihave aproblem with kontact and therefore I must use thunderbird… Applications must be switched on the main menu, icons dont work.
For anyone inclined to install the nVidia driver The Hard Way might want to look at a script file I wrote that reduces the task by several keystrokes and helps find the right nVidia driver to use, among the many you may have downloaded:
I was able to install nvidia 260, but when I ran nvidia-settings I got “floating point exception”. I even built multiple versions of nvidia-settings from ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nvidia-settings/
However, I successfully installed nvidia 270 from ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/ (under Linux-x86/270.30) and I now have smooth animations and a working nvidia-settings.
I was able to install nvidia 260, but when I ran nvidia-settings I got "floating point exception". I even built multiple versions of nvidia-settings from ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nvidia-settings/
However, I successfully installed nvidia 270 from ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/ (under Linux-x86/270.30) and I now have smooth animations and a working nvidia-settings.
I am also running the nVIDIA 270.29 driver here, 64 bit, under openSUSE 11.4 RC2 and it seems to be working just fine. I do wonder when 270.xx drivers will make it into final release, but I have not seen anything about their release being posted. I also have found these links for the next version: