NVIDIA Driver Install - Where to Find.

chome4 · January 21, 2012, 1:23pm

I’ve got an nVidia Corporation NV17GL [Quadro NVS] dual-VGA card in my system.

When I goto SDB:NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE and select ‘NVIDIA legacy cards’, nvidia-legacy.ymp opens with Yast.

During the install, I get the message: http://gmjones.org/tv/Screenshot.png

How can I get to install Nvidia’s correct drivers for the above bit of hardware?

martin_helm · January 21, 2012, 1:47pm

Am 21.01.2012 13:26, schrieb chome4:
>
> During the install, I get the message:
> http://gmjones.org/tv/Screenshot.png
>
That is just the message you get when you add a new repository to
confirm that you accept the key for it.
Your dialog is to small, increase it (click on the right bottom corner
and drag it larger until the two buttons for “trust” and “cancel”
appear) and click to accept the key (if you do not you cannot use the
proprietary driver).

> How can I get to install Nvidia’s correct drivers for the above bit of
> hardware?
>
The nvidia.com driver search does not work for me in the moment, so I
cannot see what they say about the card. Your choice (legacy) seems
reasonable to me.

chome4 · January 21, 2012, 2:43pm

martin_helm:

Am 21.01.2012 13:26, schrieb chome4:
>
> During the install, I get the message:
> http://gmjones.org/tv/Screenshot.png
>
That is just the message you get when you add a new repository to
confirm that you accept the key for it.
Your dialog is to small, increase it (click on the right bottom corner
and drag it larger until the two buttons for “trust” and “cancel”
appear) and click to accept the key (if you do not you cannot use the
proprietary driver).

> How can I get to install Nvidia’s correct drivers for the above bit of
> hardware?
>
The nvidia.com driver search does not work for me in the moment, so I
cannot see what they say about the card. Your choice (legacy) seems
reasonable to me.

–
PC: oS 11.4 (dual boot 12.1) 64 bit | Intel Core i7-2600@3.40GHz | KDE
4.6.0 | GeForce GT 420 | 16GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.7.4 |
nVidia ION | 3GB Ram

Good thing you mentioned stretching the box! I saw the ‘trust’ button and the drivers were installed successfully. But after rebooting all I get is a black screen.

martin_helm · January 21, 2012, 3:27pm

Am 21.01.2012 14:46, schrieb chome4:
>
> Good thing you mentioned stretching the box! I saw the ‘trust’ button
> and the drivers were installed successfully. But after rebooting all I
> get is a black screen.
>
Can you boot to failsafe (usually the second entry in the grub boot
screen)?

jdmcdaniel3 · January 21, 2012, 3:43pm

Using your designation nVidia Corporation NV17GL [Quadro NVS] I could not find an exact match, but it seemed to indicate you could use the 270.41.06 driver version. You most likely need to add in the kernel load option called **nomodeset, **which you can type while in the grub OS selection menu, just before you press the enter key to select your normal openSUSE startup kernel. And, this option can be added into the menu.lst file as root to be used all of the time. The nomodeset command already exists in failsafe, so you can see an example, but you don’t want all of the other stuff unless you need it, Thank You,

martin_helm · January 21, 2012, 4:14pm

Am 21.01.2012 15:46, schrieb jdmcdaniel3:
> nVidia Corporation NV17G
According to this http://www.beyond3d.com/resources/chip/4 the chip
seems to be used in GeForce4 cards (though it shows NV17 not NV17G) and
the correct driver for this cards is 96.43.20.

@chome4

Please post the output from


/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -i vga -A 2

run the code from a terminal.

chome4 · January 21, 2012, 4:53pm

martin_helm:

Am 21.01.2012 15:46, schrieb jdmcdaniel3:
> nVidia Corporation NV17G
According to this Beyond3D - NVIDIA NV17 the chip
seems to be used in GeForce4 cards (though it shows NV17 not NV17G) and
the correct driver for this cards is 96.43.20.

@chome4

Please post the output from
/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -i vga -A 2
run the code from a terminal.

/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -i vga -A 2 gives:

04:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV17GL [Quadro NVS] [10de:017a] (rev a3)
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Device [10de:0146]
Kernel driver in use: nvidia

chome4 · January 21, 2012, 5:06pm

Using the non-failsafe item, if I wait a while, I get:

http://gmjones.org/tv/Screenshot2.png

chome4 · January 21, 2012, 5:12pm

The method I used to setup the driver originally didn’t give me a list to select this version from. Nvidia have an autosearch facility which doesn’t work in Linux.

martin_helm · January 21, 2012, 5:06pm

And what rpms are installed now, just to be sure?


rpm -qa '*nvidia*'

From your screenshot I guess that you run gnome 3 (is that correct?), I
think to remember from other threads that gnome 3 does not work with old
nvidia cards with the proprietary driver (a Gnome expert may comment
here and if there is a workaround).

chome4 · January 21, 2012, 5:55pm

martin_helm:

And what rpms are installed now, just to be sure?
rpm -qa '*nvidia*'
From your screenshot I guess that you run gnome 3 (is that correct?), I
think to remember from other threads that gnome 3 does not work with old
nvidia cards with the proprietary driver (a Gnome expert may comment
here and if there is a workaround).

–
PC: oS 11.4 (dual boot 12.1) 64 bit | Intel Core i7-2600@3.40GHz | KDE
4.6.0 | GeForce GT 420 | 16GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.7.4 |
nVidia ION | 3GB Ram

rpm -qa ‘nvidia’, gives:

nvidia-gfx-kmp-desktop-96.43.20_k3.1.0_1.2-13.1.i586
x11-video-nvidia-96.43.20-14.1.i586

Using GNOME 3.2.1

Can I ‘drop’ down to a previous version or is it best to switch to KDE desktop? I selected GNOME at install so KDE probably isn’t on my computer.

martin_helm · January 21, 2012, 6:09pm

Am 21.01.2012 17:56, schrieb chome4:
>
> rpm -qa ‘nvidia’, gives:
>
> nvidia-gfx-kmp-desktop-96.43.20_k3.1.0_1.2-13.1.i586
> x11-video-nvidia-96.43.20-14.1.i586
>
> Using GNOME 3.2.1
>
> Can I ‘drop’ down to a previous version or is it best to switch to KDE
> desktop? I selected GNOME at install so KDE probably isn’t on my
> computer.
>
>
I looks like your driver is ok and properly installed. Maybe someone has
an idea about the gnome error message you posted and how to resolve it.

KDE should not have this problem I have it on an old machine with nvidia
legacy (of course I disabled the desktop effects, they are too much for
the old card). You can install KDE inparallel to Gnome with yast.
I am sure that Gnome 2 will work, but for that you have to install
openSUSE 11.4.

If I were you I would wait a little bit if others more familiar with
your situation comment here.

chome4 · January 21, 2012, 6:21pm

martin_helm:

Am 21.01.2012 17:56, schrieb chome4:
>
> rpm -qa ‘nvidia’, gives:
>
> nvidia-gfx-kmp-desktop-96.43.20_k3.1.0_1.2-13.1.i586
> x11-video-nvidia-96.43.20-14.1.i586
>
> Using GNOME 3.2.1
>
> Can I ‘drop’ down to a previous version or is it best to switch to KDE
> desktop? I selected GNOME at install so KDE probably isn’t on my
> computer.
>
>
I looks like your driver is ok and properly installed. Maybe someone has
an idea about the gnome error message you posted and how to resolve it.

KDE should not have this problem I have it on an old machine with nvidia
legacy (of course I disabled the desktop effects, they are too much for
the old card). You can install KDE inparallel to Gnome with yast.
I am sure that Gnome 2 will work, but for that you have to install
openSUSE 11.4.

If I were you I would wait a little bit if others more familiar with
your situation comment here.

–
PC: oS 11.4 (dual boot 12.1) 64 bit | Intel Core i7-2600@3.40GHz | KDE
4.6.0 | GeForce GT 420 | 16GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.7.4 |
nVidia ION | 3GB Ram

OK. Thanks for the help thus far…

martin_helm · January 21, 2012, 6:22pm

Am 21.01.2012 17:16, schrieb chome4:
>
> Using the non-failsafe item, if I wait a while, I get:
>
> http://gmjones.org/tv/Screenshot2.png
>
>
There is an ubuntu thread about a similar message
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1563603
look at the last two posts maybe that helps.
(the rename .config/monitors.xml advise).

markgharvey · March 8, 2012, 10:17pm

I am trying to avoid the Hard Way
SDB:NVIDIA the hard way - openSUSE

and use the repo way & One-Click Install
SDB:NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE

but the when adding the repository
ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/12.1/repo/repoindex.xml

either via the One-Click Install or manually, I get the following error:

Timeout exceeded when accessing ‘ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/12.1/repo/repoindex.xml’.

Can a forum moderator contact nVidia & get them to activate the repository?

Also, as per Additional package repositories - openSUSE , " The nVidia repositories are only browseable via ftp. "

I also tried to reach the nVidia repo by using gFTP on port 21, using anonymous with no password. No luck.

jdmcdaniel3 · March 8, 2012, 10:33pm

The repo URL would be as follows

"ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/12.1/"

without the quotes.

I have a new script that can be used to install the nVIDIA driver the hard way shown here that works with DKMS: S.A.N.D.I. - SuSE Automated NVIDIA Driver Installer - Version 1.40 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums, using DKMS to autoinstall the driver when you update the kernel.

I have a simple script to just install the driver the hard way only you can find here: LNVHW - Load NVIDIA (driver the) Hard Way from runlevel 3 - Version 1.40 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

and you can find links to the latest nVIDIA driver here in my blog: Installing the nVIDIA Video Driver the Hard Way - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

Thank You,