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Hi!

Using 11.4 with a NVIDIA card and recently installed the driver all went fine. SUse wasf freezing randomly before that after some updates.
Then yesterday I installed the 27 updates that appeared a few days ago.
After the update I needed to reboot and then SUSE reverted to the commandline
What do I do now?
What more info do you need?
Thanks
Jandre

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You did not indicate how you installed the nVIDIA driver, but if it was NOT installed using YaST, then you must reinstall the video driver every time you update your Linux kernel as does occur from time to time with security updates. I do have a couple of blogs about installing the driver the hard way below if you are interested.

Installing the nVIDIA Video Driver the Hard Way - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

LNVHW - Load NVIDIA (driver the) Hard Way from runlevel 3 - Version 1.20 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

Thank You,

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Hi James!

So, it is all your fault! I used your method to install the driver because I failed repeatedly via the one-click solution.

ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.4/
 Download (curl) error for 'ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.4/i586/x11-video-nvidiaG02-290.10-13.1.i586.rpm':
 Error code: User abort
 Error message: transfer closed with 16563296 bytes remaining to read

I opened YAst (this morning!) and found that there are various nvidia-gfxG02-kmp packages
nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-pae
nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop
nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-default

(I have a nvidia 6200 or 6400!) So this is the correct packages

What will or rather should happen when I click on these to install via yast? Should it solve the problem? OR is the hard way easier in the long run?

If I do the long way
I assume that I do not need to follow the whole process again?

thanks a lot!
God bless
Jandre

Ps Wouldnt “real life” be great if everyone was as helpful as the people on this forum!

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Pick the one that matches your lernel. Most likely it is desktop.

If unsure look in the my computer icon on desktop or at the command line type **uname -r **

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If you install the nVIDIA driver the hard way and update your kernel, then you must reinstall it again. For most people, the correct file from YaST is nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop. If you read my blog, you notice that to install the driver the hard way, you must install the kernel source files and add in the nomodeset command in your menu.lst file as well as get a successful download of the driver file from nVIDIA. It is unclear to me at the moment just what action(s) you have taken.

Thank You,