Hi,
I tried in November last year to install 11.2 on a machine with NSRock K8NF6P motherboard which has an onboard GEForce class 6 graphics card. Installation went ok until the very end. Then driver
problem surfaced, display went blank and was then damaged and required repair.
The NVIDEA driver install appears to require the system is up and running before it is installed. As I did not get a running system how do I install the drivers before any damage is caused?
Sid
is that board, or the built in GEForce, certified for use with any
flavor of Linux?
hmmm…you meant ASRock, right?
did the repair shop fix it under warranty?
did they tell you that you cooked it with Linux, or what?
actually, my real question is: do you really wanna try again?
or, have you searched the net with the searcher of your choice and
learned that folks are using that hardware successfully and safely
with Linux?
your board, your decision, your money…
but, to directly answer your question: i am unaware of a way to
install the proprietary nVidia driver during system install…in fact
the GNU driver IS installed all during the process, so as far as i can
tell the open source driver is not what cooked your board…anyway i
have never heard of that happening…what makes you think that is
what happened?
hmmmm…i guess you could do the install using the non-graphical mode
and specify to not boot into X for the normal system…then you could
use the curses YaST to install the nVidia driver, and finally then go
back and set it to boot to run level five…but WOW, why take the
chance or trouble?
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palladium