nvidia driver problem

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Yesterday I decide to update driver for my graphic card. I used nvidia repo for opensuse and installed 185.18.14
After that I get garbage on the screen… like this… >:(
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/5338/96837119.th.png](http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=PqgCJ89)
Anyone have an idea how to get rid of these artefacts or at least how can I revert to an older driver version that worked fine?
Thanks!

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Manual install, as there is no roll back in the repo.

Download the version you want from nvidia and follow this (remove the repo version and repo first)

Alright so here is how to install the nvidia driver manually, in case the one in the repo doesn’t work or u just want to use the latest.

Go to Yast>Software>Software Management

Search for and install if you don’t have these:

make
gcc
kernel-source

Now download the latest Nvidia driver:

Place the file in your /home/username

Now restart and at the boot screen, pause the boot by moving the down button, then move back up and clear any text in the boot arguments by holding backspace. Then just type the number: 3

At the login

Type “root” then enter and then your root password and press enter.

now type
cd /home/username

*Now remember you can use the {TAB} key to auto complete

so type:
sh NVIDIA{TAB}
and the whole file name should auto complete

eg: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.09-pkg1.run

Follow the installer and let it compile the kernel module for you.
Say Yes to everything
Use TAB to move around
reboot

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Do I really need to install kernel-source in order to make my graphic card to work?
>:(
geez… what a hustle… :X

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Hang on … let me think…:\

Um… Yes:O

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Ok OK no hard feelings… :wink:

I was just wondering cuz on some other distros I used, kernel-headers would be enough

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I am also having problems with the Nvidia Driver. I have a system that is used as part of flight simulator. It has three 9800GT’s and a 7900GT. The 7900GT is used the console for the comuter, the 9800GT’s are use as the Out The Window (OTW) sceen. This system is about a year old and has been useing the openSUSE Nvdia GO2 driver. Last week one of the programers informed me that the console was not starting. I noticed that the primary 9800 had spots, so I thought I had a bad card that was causing the 9700 not to start. After disableing the 9800’s removing the Nvidia driver I found that the 9700 would only work with the GO1 Driver, of course the 9800. would not work with this driver. Reinstalled the GO2 driver becuase I need the OTW more than the console. Replaced the 7900 with a 8600GTS and got the same problem. Not only dose it appear that the driver is causing video problems but it has changed what hardware it supports.

rpm -qa |grep -i nvidia
nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-default-185.18.14_2.6.22.19_0.3-2.3
x11-video-nvidiaG02-185.18.14-2.3

uname -a
Linux beast 2.6.22.19-0.3-default #1 SMP 2009-05-27 10:35:34 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Dave

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Sorry, I forgot to add that this comoputer is openSUSE 10.3 32bit.