Installing nvidia drives

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Alright, basically I need to install my graphics driver. Simple enough. Just a usual
sudo sh gfxdrv.run
Nah, gotta kill X first.

I’m running openSUSE 10.1 (or what ever the most recent version is)

I have a compaq 8710w laptop with a Quadro FX 1600m
I downloaded the most recent 64 bit drivers (yes im using openSUSE 64) from the nvidia website

To install my drivers, I have been editing my inittab file and setting default boot to 3


sudo edit /etc/inittab
*esq*
:wq
sudo /sbin/shutdown -r now

When I reboot, I cd to Desktop of my username
then


sudo sh nameofdrivers.run

It begins the install, but failed because I didnt have GCC installed. So i installed GCC and now I get the following error (and yes, I am compiling a kernel interface at time of install)

The kernel header file '/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/build/include/linux/kernel.h' does not exist. The most likely reason for this is that the kernel source path '/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/build' is incorrect. Please make sure you have installed the kernel source files for your kernel and that they are properly configured; on red had linux systems for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' or 'kernel-devel' RPM installed. If you know the correct kernel source files are installed, you may have to speficy the kernel source path with the '--kernel-source-path' command line option

What do I need to do now to get the kernel source files where they’re supposed to be?

I gotta get these graphics drivers installed and the default ones fail, and the third party package is crap… :-\

Any help would be greatly appreciated
-Pat

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You can install kernel-sources and headers from YaST -> Software Management.

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check in yast that the Kernel Headers are actually installed. Here’s how I do my nVidia driver installs when I really want high-speed 3D:

  1. End current session
  2. Do a console logon (setting at bottom of screenP
  3. Logon as root
  4. Navigate to the driver
  5. ./nvidia_driver_somenumber.pkg2 (this runs the driver installed)
  6. …build the new driver

It’s basically what you’re already doing so it sounds like the kernel headers aren’t installed. On my laptop I just installed 11.1 x86_64 and I decided to go with the default nVidia driver from the nvidia repo listed on:
Additional YaST Package Repositories - openSUSE
and it seems to work fine thought I haven’t tried any 3D games. I also have to use the nvidia-settings utility to manage the display either way…

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Hi,
I’m looking for the driver of the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphic card on OpenSuse 11 64-bit? Is it possible to find it somewhere, please?
Thanks
Slim.gana@yahoo.fr

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In the offical place ??

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The 9600M GT works by simple adding the NVIDIA repository. To do so, start up yast software management, add
repository > community repositories > add > nvidia

then if you don’t get a gui run sudo nvidia-xconfig, sudo sax2 -r, sudo reboot.

If you do get a gui, run the same commands from a shell window.