I don’t see the driver (NVIDIA- Linux-x86-71.86.11.pkg1.run) that the Nvidia website matches with my graphics card listed at the OpenSUSE.org one-click site. Do I go with what nvidia-legacy-ymp offers or do I try to install NVIDIA- Linux-x86-71.86.11.pkg1.run. If the latter, then how do I install it?
Newbie-me is real nervous about attempting to accomplish the Nvidia Installer HOWTO for SUSE LINUX users. The howto says to let Yast perform the install; but, so far, I can’t get Yast to give me that option…
Since I’ve heard that it is presumptuous to thank someone in advance; let me just say that, as always, any help that might be given me would be much appreciated.
Remove any nvidia repos and packages from there.
If you have the file downloaded from nvidia - follow this:
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-x86-185.18.36-pkg1.run
Follow the installer and let it compile the kernel module for you.
Say Yes to everything
Use TAB to move around reboot
I am flabbergasted over having been stupid enough to have repeated the very same mistake I made in * openSUSE Forums > Install/Boot/Login How to restore normal GUI?
When I went to (try) to put the downloaded driver in /home/randall, right click gave me the option to have it installed so I made that selection. But software mananger said it isn’t an rpm file. So I searched OpenSuse. org for: (rpm files) NVIDIA-Linux-x86-185.18.36-pkg1.run and got no hits. So I had Heapr.com search for the same – only got one hit: my own OpenSuse. org search. So I tried following your directions. No luck.
So I thought, well maybe it doesn’t come in a rpm version. By then I’d started to get frustrated and decided to just go with what OpenSuse. org’s one click site offers. And that, in short, is the same mistake I made before.
All I have on /dev/sda is OpenSUSE, so PCLOS (on /dev/sdb) is unharmed. That’s what I’m using now. [By the way, PCLINUXOS uses rpm files, too. Will the presence of my broken OpenSUSE 11.0 on the same hard drive corrupt PCLINUXOS? The folks at the PCLINUXOS forums urge “NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, have more than one repository open at one time!” (I’m wondering if using rpm files is sort of like playing bass, treble, and midrange all out of one speaker?)]
So, anyway, I suppose the only thing for me to do (as soon as I can get back on my computer) is to try out all the advice that was given me at How to restore normal GUI? and at a similar thread at LinuxQuestions.org. I already know that startx doesn’t work. When I boot, just before the login prompt, it says:
fatal server error no screens found
giving up
xinit: connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to server
xinit: no such process (errno 3): Server error.
I’d kept the broken 11.0 with intentions of learning to fix it. Oh, well. I don’t want to downgrade 11.1 to 11.0 because then I’d lose all my files and downloads. As it is; I may not be able to get to them, but I do still have them. I haven’t learned to back up my files because I used up all my blank CDs burning Ubuntu live CDs – none which will install.
Any help you can give me will be deeply appreciated. Cheers!:’(
I can’t really say about repos in PCLOS.
As far as you are concerned. To install the driver manually my directions apply.
The driver is not a .rpm
It’s a shell script and needs to be installed outside X and as the instructions show, in level 3.
You didn’t say what happened when you tried to install it! If you boot to level 3, which you can do - regardless, type: yast once you have logged in as root.
Make sure linux-kernel-headers is installed and remove the repo’s added for nvidia.
The driver is in home/randall/documents. Does that matter that it’s not just /home/randall? I tried it with both cd /home/randall and cd /home/randall/documents. The tab (auto complete) following sh NVIDIA never worked all, so I just typed out sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-71.86.11.pkg1.run.
The NVIDIA-Legacy.ymp is what I installed from the OpenSUSE.org website. I’ll boot back into 11.1 and see if I can find a zypper command to see it that sucker is still there. Would uninstalling it help.
The NVIDIA website’s how to for installing a NVIDIA driver on OpenSUSE 11.1 (if memory serves me correctly) calls for something like stopping the x server, unloading the kernel, and rebuilding a new one. It spooked me right on away from there. I’ll try your instructions again.
Now, I think (my memory is hazy here) I may have deleted the NVIDIA- Linux-x86-71.86.11.pkg1.run file after software manager said it wasn’t a rpm file and kept the NVIDIA-Legacy.ymp download instead. I don’t know what made me think it would turn out different this time. I’m really tired of doing reinstalls every time something breaks down. I really want to see my current 11.1 back up.
There is no need to do re-installs. That’s a M$ phenomenon.
This driver is an old one for an old GPU isn’t it.
I find it rather strange that TAB isn’t auto completing. I have done this so many times and it has never failed to work.
The location of the driver should not matter.
I must have done something wrong when I tried it before because I don’t remember seeing a red prompt. But this time, just as I was trying your directions again and saw the red prompt, I remembered something someone had said about a red prompt at LinuxQuestions.org. Here it is:
Old 10-05-09, 11:31 PM #6
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nv with sax2…
Assuming that you are in a console mode, that is the X window manager is stopped, and there is a prompt.
Type your login name and password. That will take you in as a user. Next, type “su” and give your root password. You should see a red prompt.
Type “sax2 -r -m 0=nv” That should configure the graphic system and install the “nv” module. Thereafter type “init 5” and you should get a desktop as user.
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So that’s what I did. I didn’t have to type init 5 – didn’t get that far. When I typed sax2 -r -m 0=nv and hit enter, it took me straight to the Sax2: X11 Configuration window (Yast Control Center>Graphics card and monitor) for testing and save reconfiguration based on Sax2 suggestions. Back when I had the same problem with 11.1 before, I’d already downgraded to 11.0 by accident before the above was posted. So I’d never had a chance to try it out.
By the way, I’m doing this post on my resurrected 11.1. I guess it’s safe to try to install NVIDIA- Linux-x86-71.86.11.pkg1.run since I presume the above directions will work again if it don’t work out.
Any way, thank you very much for your help and perseverence. I’ll keep you posted.rotfl!
“cd /home/randall/documents sh nvidia-Linux-x86-71.01-pkg1.run” elicits “-bash: cd/home/randall/documents: No such file or directory.”
Anything I type that includes “cd” or “nvidia-Linux-x86-71.01-pkg1.run” gets “No such file or directly.”
By playing with it, I can get the command line to concede /home/randall “is a directory” if I push tab following that, tab will add a “/” making it “/home/randall/” So far as far as I’ve gotten without command line saying “No such file or directory” is “/home/randall/downloads” to which commandline says “/home/randall/downloads is a directory.”
In downloads, when I right click “nvidia-Linux-x86-71.01-pkg1.run,” a window opens at which when I select open containing folder, “downloads file browser” opens. When I double click on the nvidia-Linux-x86-71.01-pkg1.run icon, gedit says that it cannot open it because it (gedit) cannot detect the character coding. When I right click the icon and select open with Package Installer, a window opens asking if I want to install “/home/randall/downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-71.01-pkg1.run.” After I select “yes,” Package Installer says LOCAL INSTALLATION FAILED. Details show: /home/randall/downloads/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-71.01-pkg1.run is not a valid rpm file.
Although I had firmly decided to never again hand-carry my large, ungainly and heavy, ancient, tower over to FreeGeek Columbus using public transportation to ask them to fix something only to have to hand-carry it back the same way, I am on the verge of doing it again and asking them to install the driver. Nevertheless, I am very grateful to have 11.1 back up and running.
Maybe I should just consider things to be “well enough” as they are, and give up on 3D effects until I can get a much younger computer. Get on out on a freeway off-ramp with a sign soliciting donations.
Try these modified instructions - see if it’s easier:
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
linux-kernel-headers
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
Login with your username and password
Now switch to super user with su
and root password
*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-x86-185.18.36-pkg1.run
Follow the installer and let it compile the kernel module for you.
Say Yes to everything
Use TAB to move around
reboot
I don’t know where to begin. The only way I was able to force myself to take pen in hand and write out all the command line output, is that I feel obligated to give quality feedback from my end since so much has been given me in this endeavor on your end.
I still have to type it all out. That’s forth coming.
While looking at pictures over on the PCLOS forum (I needed to take a break), I noticed a branch of PCLOSs default (KDE) menu tree that I didn’t know about. So I went there to look around [Main menu>system>configuration>hardware>video installation tool]. The latter offered me five options of video driver to choose from; I chose NVIDIA 71xx and clicked on the install button. Less than a minute later – surprised at how fast it built the kernel (another distro, but not this one) had me primed to wait at least several minutes – I clicked on the proffered restart button.
While comfort and convenience have their places – prominent places – nothing takes the place of learning and becoming more than what one was. My awareness of PCLOSs one-click driver install came at a real good time: only after I learned some things on the subject and got confident enough to try some things I was afraid to try a few days ago.