Thank you.
Based upon past experience, I’m leery of downloading nVidia drivers. But I thought to try the download you referred me to on 11.0 on my other hard drive.
This morning when I booted up, there was an update reminder, so I clicked, yes. Prior to that, though, on boot options, I had OpenSUSE 11.0 (/dev/sda) and OpenSUSE 11.0 (/dev/sdb1) *, and I could boot either one. But after the updates, boot options are OpenSUSE 11.0 -2.6.25.20-0.5 and OpenSUSE 11.0 (/dev/sdb1). When I select the second one, OpenSUSE 11.0 (/dev/sdb1), and push enter, it switches back to OpenSUSE 11.0 -2.6.25.20-0.5. So, now, I can’t boot OpenSUSE 11.0 (/dev/sdb1). I’m just curious about why that occurred; maybe the explanation will add to my understanding (shallow though it be).
So if I try downloading a nVidia driver, I’m going to have to try it on the better 11.0.
The better 11.0 seems to have much better screen resolution and animation (better than I’ve ever had before) than did OpenSUSE 11.0 (/dev/sdb1), or even the former 11.1. I wonder if the driver that I’d downloaded before is still here? I don’t see a hardware driver detector on this system, but the screen behavior says, “yes.” Is there an application on 11.0 to detect hardware drivers?
Okay, I just went to Control Center>hardware>Graphics card and . . ., and it says Nvidia Riva [TNT2/TNT2] Pro. I got: NVIDIA NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] using a different operation system and misquoted it in an earlier post here – sorry about that.
Someone in another Linux forum directed me to the Nvidia website, but I couldn’t find a driver there. Someone else told me the following:
“ . . . NVidia indeed supports your card:
What’s a legacy driver?
As you can see from the link, you want the “1.0-71xx driver”. It’s available for your CPU/platform here:
Unix Drivers Portal Page . . .”
The above links don’t take me to the exact same page as the link you provided for me, though they are both Welcome to NVIDIA - World Leader in Visual Computing Technologies. Your link takes me almost straight to NVIDIA-Linux-x86-71.86.11.pkg1.run.
Ultimately, I ended up going elsewhere to try to get the driver; but I don’t think that what I got was precisely what I needed. Or more likely, I didn’t know how to find it.
Is there any reason why I might want to upgrade to 11.1? Other than not being able to play videos, I’m rather satisfied with my current system.
Thank you very much.*