Got a problem installing the Nvidia driver using one-click install. I have installed this before on this system but reinstalled the system this morning and now the nvidia driver just wont install in Yast or with one click install. Here is what I get:
YaST2 conflicts list - generated 2009-02-24 09:58:50
nothing provides kernel(trace:mm) = 67506958a8c60f3c needed by nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-trace-180.29_2.6.27.18_0.3-0.1.x86_64
] do not install x11-video-nvidiaG02-180.29-0.1.x86_64
Did you reinstall the system in a fresh mode or upon the old one?
Did you remove the previously installed nvidia driver?
Do a try: remove them completely with YAST, in a konsole terminal as root give a “sax2 -r” to load the vesafb video driver, reboot the system in X and with YAST - after added the nvidia repository - reinstall both nvidia-your-matching-kernel-G02 and x11-…
Regards
Sorry I can’t offer a solution but I can issue a warning to people who have the nvidia repository included in Yast. I noticed today that the nvidia repository was offering me an update from 180.29_2.6.27_9.1-0.1-x86_64 to 180.29_2.6.27.18_0.3-0.1_x86_64. I have not performed this update as I have checked that my kernel is still 2.6.27.7-9. Maybe this inappropriate kernel version in the nvidia repository for openSUSE-11.1 is the cause of people’s problems?
It is the cuase of alot of people’s headaches.
I don’t understand how something like this can happen.
The default kernel is 2.6.27.7 while in the official repository for the nvidia driver you only get the driver version for kernel 2.6.27.18.
I updated to the new kernel from the updates-testing repro Index of /update/11.1-test into Yast. I just added it to the configured software repositories. I updated the Kernel and then the Nvidia driver installed. Once I did that I disabled the update-test repository. I would like to thank PingooseCovert for pointing me in the right direction.
this also happened in the last time when a kernel update is on the way. Nothing to worry about I guess tomorrow this issue should be solved and the new kernel appears in the update repo.
Even a manual install won’t work… It corrupted my dirvers! Now I can’t even boot KDE. I tried deleting xorg.conf and I tried moving my backup xorg as the original and it still won’t work… I hope the problem will be fixed soon 'cause I have to use Ubuntu now:(…
The only older drivers I found were 170.xx in the Nvidia repository, but by updating my kernel to 2.6.27.18 as BakerBoy26 did I was able to one-click install the 180.xx drivers which are in there on my barebones 11.1 system.
It started with integrity errors on the repodata, to wrong version between repodata and repo files, to the problem you are having were the Nvidia version does not match the kernel version.
Hmm, this is quite shonky behaviour! Not the kind of thing one expects from such a prominent distro.
There were murmurings late last year of redesigning the repo system to avoid this kind of thing, obviously nothing was done.
I also decided to do a clean install “at the wrong time”, maybe we need a big red/green warning sign on the main page so that people know when it’s safe to install/update etc’ :sarcastic:.
This happened to me last night. It is a fairly fresh Net-installed version of openSUSE 11.1 and the only change I did was install KDE 4.2 right beforehand (rebooted in-between)
If I understand correctly, I am waiting for someone to push a new kernel revision (2.6.27.18) out to the 11.1 yast repository. Once that happens, the nvidia driver out there will be compatible with my system. Is that right? And if so, do we have an estimated time of completion for that task? All I’ve heard so far is ‘soon’.
Not to sound too whiny, because I do very much appreciate the hard work involved here, but this really is a very bad thing. I’ve been an Ubuntu user for a couple years and just yesterday (the 24th) decided to give OpenSuse a try. I was reluctant to do so because I absolutely love APT, but I’ve heard there have been big improvements in Suse’s package management. Suffice to say that I feel as though I’ve been misled.
Anyway, an estimated time of completion would be extremely helpful. I need to be productive on this box, and if ‘soon’ means ‘later this week’ as opposed to ‘within a few hours’ then I need to get back to Ubuntu immediately.
I am new to suse 11 and i don’t understand alot of things.
I just saw an update warning in the taskbar and made a mistake and applied that .after updating ,everything messed up and nothing works anymore.Everything was in perfect working condition before this update ,now my computer crashes and any application i open freezes instantly and mouse and keyboard have no control of anything.
as i mentioned ,i do not know the tricks with linux and opensuse 11.my desktop is genome.
can somebody please tell me how to bring my computer back to that working condition that it was before installing the updates and walk me thru this.I don’t even know what the updates were and how to uninstall them.
BTW.how do i get rid of this password asking of linux o/s.it is asking for password left and right and i am the only person who is working with this computer and there is no need to be worrying about anybody else that might have access to my computer (my personal home computer).It is just asking for the password too much.even though i tried to untick that every where ,still it comes up for whatever that i want to do.
Hi guys! I added the test repo for 11.1 and when I tried to install the Nvidia driver, everything worked fine. I rebooted my PC and my graphics still won’t work though… I believe that the fact that I had just installed the new 64bit driver using the manual install is messing up with the newly YAST installed driver. THis is just a hypothesis.
