This morning I downloaded the Nvidia driver 313.26
I installed the 3.8.2.1 kernel
The Nvidia driver is installed normal no patches needed
So the nvidia problems with 3.7 and 3.8, 3.9 kernels are gone
Can you please post what you did?
Driver from nvidia.com?
How did you upgrade your kernel? How did you install your driver?
Thanks
The Nvidia driver comes from ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/
The kernel 3.8.x comes from http://download.opensuse.org/Kernel:/stable/standard
The kernel is installed by Yast
After that the nvidia driver is installed the hard way
This all on opensue 12.2
Oh, I thought it was done on 12.3 =)
The kernel link is not found. If you can provide more info about which packages of the kernel you downloaded and which are installed first I’d be graceful.
on Opensuse 12.3 rc2 its the same
as you have to ad the download for the kernel by hand to Yast Software repositories
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/x86_64/
I have opensuse 12.2 and 12.3rc2 both on this system
OK So I download and install all 4 Kernel-desktop and then reboot?
- Kernel desktop
- Kernel desktop-base
- Kernel desktop-devel
- Kernel desktop-devel-debug
I tried once to upgrade the Kernel but I caused the system to freeze here.
Please, don’t. Not if you don’t know what you’re doing. A thing I don’t understand is why one should download from a repo, instead of using that repo, and do a “Switch system packages …”. That would at least guarantee the install of the kernel-sources and the appropriate -devel packages, and avoid a mess with discrepancy between running kernel and kernel sources.
I really don’t know how to upgrade the Kernel on openSUSE, I’m sorry.
And I also didn’t find and good tutorial for beginners on how to do so =/
The first question always should be: Do you have any need for a newer kernel?
If not, what would a new kernel bring for you, except for a higher version number?
Performance in everything I do here:
- Rendering 3D images
- Gaming
- Extracting compressed folders (here performance gains are at least 150% on a higher kernel than 3.4)
- Testing systems on VM’s
On Ubuntu I install synaptic (like YasT here) and just search for the Kernel I want and install everything related to that specific Kernel version (I usually install 3.5.0-25) as seen here, from my tutorial.
You should wait for 12.3 and upgrade. i believe it will have 3.7.10 or something like that
In my case, I’m running RC2 with the 3.7.10 kernel. The nvidia 313.26 module did build with no symbolic link but when I booted into KDE, it took me directly to the log in screen. Every time I logged in, KDE started to load but then I was kicked back to the log in screen again. IceWM worked fine and my display was running the 313.26 driver.
I suppose I could experiment and see what happens with the 3.8 kernel.
I really enjoy 12.3 but when I tried to install manually the drivers it said “No module” then I suppose it’s something to do with the Kernel. This is the problem with people like me, I only used Ubuntu as my main system and a while ago I did a “easy install” of the drivers THEN a manual one so I didn’t encounter any problems at all.
Jumping directly to the hard way without actually knowing how to it’s a problem right now. So I’d really appreciate if you tell me exactly what steps you did.
Regards.
Instruction so hard way should be on the NVIDIA web page. Basically you download the driver then be sure you have the kernels source for your kernel and the c compiler gcc installed. (do that from Yast) change the permissions on the downloaded installer to allow run and run it. Note if installing the hard way you are responsible to reinstall after a kernel change/upgrade. It will not automagiclly happen.
I’ve been busy with other things until just recently & was unable to test this version. Now with just 2 days to go for 12.3 (using the 3.7.10 kernel). I would like to know for the 313.26 driver will it install with or without the symlink if I do the alleged hard way?
I have the exact same problem but with Gnome 3.6. I also tried the 310.40 drivers. It fails in a different way with a white screen after login.
Is there a workaround?
Beta is now gone but maybe someone will stumble upon this thread looking for an answer, so here it is 
Under additional groups check ‘pulse’, ‘pulse-access’, and video. Logout and back in and it works!
I just installed the latest nvidia driver 313.30. I only needed to add myself to the video group to get this driver to work. No symbolic link was necessary.