Hello,
I tried to install an nvidia based graphics card and after it booted X would not come up. Is there some procedure for upgrading before I install the card?
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Which version of openSUSE are you using?
Did you have proprietary NVIDIA driver installed for previous card?
Sorry,
Opensuse 11.1 and no there was no nvidia driver loaded. I did however run sax2 -r to get X back and now I would like to get the nvidia driver loaded. It is a geforce 8400GS. Can you help?
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ehutchinson wrote:
>
> Sorry,
>
> Opensuse 11.1 and no there was no nvidia driver loaded. I did however
> run sax2 -r to get X back and now I would like to get the nvidia driver
> loaded. It is a geforce 8400GS. Can you help?
>
I use a Nvidia 8400GS on both 11.1 and 11.2 (same system dual boot). Easiest
way I found was download the latest driver from Nvidia (NVIDIA-Linux-
x86_64-190.42-pkg2.run), make sure you have the prereq installed. and
execute the script as root. I do it in run level three. Follow directs in
readme. It will have several messages, answer them. One mentions a missing
link, give it an OK and it will create the link. Also remember that you
will have to run this again if you upgrade your kernel.
I noticed the repo now has a version of the 190 drivers. I have not tried
it, all thru testing of milestones and Rc’s of 11.2 this gave me errors so I
do it the hard way, not hard.
Hope this helps.
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Russ
[openSUSE 11.2 (2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop, x86_64] KDE 4.3.3 release 1, Intel
Core 2 Dual E7200, 4 GB DDR III, GeForce 8400 GS, 320GB Disc (2)
I downloaded the NVidia driver from nvidia.com directly and installed as root (X cannot be running if you use this method) and it worked fine for me using GEForce 7200 GS. Although I have since found out that openSUSE has their own RPM packages for NVidia drivers NVIDIA - openSUSE so you may want to try that first.