Install Nvidia Driver in 12.3 RC1?

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I just downloaded OpenSuse 12.3 RC1 AMD64. I installed it on one of my PC’s. I think it is the finest and most polished implementation of KDE I have seen yet. But I cannot figure out how to install the Nvidia proprietary driver on it. I used Google and a bunch of other ways to figure this out to no avail. :?

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On 02/08/2013 03:36 PM, Rudemeister wrote:
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> I just downloaded OpenSuse 12.3 RC1

thanks for testing, but this is the wrong forum for this post…

please press the ‘Report’ button on the bottom left of this frame and
ask a moderator to move it to the correct forum:
http://tinyurl.com/2du7r4s where all the other testers can see it and
comment/help…

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This post has been moved to the Pre-Release/Beta Forum.

Thank You,

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This isn’t a problem with 12.3 RC1, it’s problem with the nvidia driver because it hasn’t been patched yet to correctly direct it to the kernel headers in kernel-3.7.* and later. The workaround can be found in comment 5 here:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=795837

And there’s already a thread about this here:

http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/tumbleweed/481744-nvidia-kernel-3-7-problem-2.html

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The latest nVIDIA driver works with kernel versions 3.7 and 3.8 as I have it loaded in 3.8-rc6 right now. You can find links for it here: https://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/jdmcdaniel3/installing-nvidia-video-driver-hard-way-29/

Thank You,

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If you are referring to 310.32 version of the nvidia drivers, that one wouldn’t compile for me with kernel 3.7.6 without the symbolic link.

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Yes and you can compile your own kernel with this and you can install the nVIDIA driver with no problems: https://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/jdmcdaniel3/s-k-c-suse-automated-kernel-compiler-version-2-50-34/

Thank You,

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Okay, I see now you’re talking about compiling your own kernel. I was talking about 3.7.* kernels from the Tumbleweed repo already compiled by the openSUSE maintainers. And the OP was talking about installing nvidia drivers in RC1 which comes with openSUSE kernels.

So the workaround is to make the symbolic link until the nvidia drivers are patched.

Or compile your own kernel.

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On 02/09/2013 11:16 AM, pilotgi wrote:
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> jdmcdaniel3;2525748 Wrote:
>> Yes and you can compile your own kernel with this and you can install
>> the nVIDIA driver with no problems: http://tinyurl.com/d5zhdtu
> Okay, I see now you’re talking about compiling your own kernel. I was
> talking about 3.7.* kernels from the Tumbleweed repo already compiled by
> the openSUSE maintainers. And the OP was talking about installing nvidia
> drivers in RC1 which comes with openSUSE kernels.
>
> So the workaround is to make the symbolic link until the nvidia drivers
> are patched.
>
> Or compile your own kernel.

Compiling your own kernel will not fix the nVidia drivers!!!

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LOL Good one rotfl!

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So I am not sure what is wrong with Tumbleweed, if anything, that would prevent the nVIDIA proprietary video driver version 310.32 from being installed the hard way into any kernel version out at the moment, but I have not tried it with Tumbleweed myself specifically. I have been unable to get the nVIDIA driver to load using dkms with the openSUSE supplied default kernel version even as I do get it to work with my SANDI bash script when I compile my own kernel. Which means that installing the kernel source file into the standard openSUSE default kernel is not exactly the same as when you compile your own kernel. I have asked about this difference before, but got no answer as to the exact difference or why the nVIDIA driver might install using dkms when you compile your own kernel but it fails with the openSUSE kernel with source. It could be blamed on the dkms config file perhaps, but I am not sure about that.

Thank You,