Well, obviously some things do not quite work out for a friend of mine.
Right now he is sitting here with his system (OpenSuse 11.1, KDE 4.2.3 & a quadro NVS 140 card) and wants to install THE LATEST Nvidia Drivers.
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What has been done so far?**
He installed the kernel-source and updated his system to the latest software.
He checked www.en.opensuse.org/Nvidia and chose the OCI for NVIDIA Legacy cards (Geforce 4 and older, TNT)
What happened?
Well, now he does only get the bash. Means no graphical interface.
I told him to execute
sax2 -r m 0=nvidia
… but that turned out to be useless: “sorry could not start configuration server”.
You guys probably know the issue - as everything is smooth as heaven on my own servers I somehow do not know what advice to give him to get (sigh) the LATEST nvidia drivers.
Another option would be to check http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html to get the driver to install it “The hard way” - but which one to choose?
Important for him is to get updates/upgrades via YaST for that driver too…
From the above output use the numbers from the output to look at the
Supported Products List (link on the left) to verify your card is
supported by the driver.
You may wish to ensure your system is up to date. The first command
refreshes the repositories, the second lists any updates, the third
will apply the updates.
sudo zypper ref
sudo zypper lu
sudo zypper up
NOTE: If the kernel updated, please reboot before continuing
If you don’t have the kernel source and tools etc installed then
sudo zypper in kernel-source linux-kernel-headers kernel-syms
module-init-tools make gcc
Almost seems to me like you didn’t really read my post and just thought: “Oh well, just another buddy having issues with Nivdia… let’s use my post once again…”.
Great. Let’s do it the hard way. Output is 0x0429 and -as expected- his card is supported.
BUT: Which arch to choose? he is running on 64bit and there are basically two choices: Linux IA64 or Linux AMD64/EM64T.
Is he able to get UPDATES as well as UPGRADES through the hard way or what else is needed?
As suggested when choosing the driver check the supported page ctrl f works quite well in a browser
Though tbh I struggled to find it either way with the hex or the graphics card hopefully someone else will pipe up. Also you can try this Nvidia Installer HOWTO for SUSE LINUX users
He did exactly as malcomlevis stated, but still he doesn=t get back into his normal system and is only able to work on the failsafe system.
Thing is, that everytime he tries to configure NVIDIA, the GUI tells to do that via command nvidia-xconfig.
He does that in console, then reboots and still, ONLY failsafe works…
Oh, and I want to ask another important question ahead: Does he get UPDATES and UPGRADES that way?
We going to need the info like xorg.logs what startx says, the xorg.conf etc… If you want updates then you need the correct oneclick… And after uninstalling the other way completely.
Took a little to uninstall the stuff, but now everything is back to normal.
Would you please tell me which of the three available choices is correct for NVS 140?
And here is my last question for today: If he used the correct-one-click-install, he would be able to get the latest updates for the driver.
I think that’s obviously true - nothing to be needed to confirm.
The problem you may have from my very brief google is sometimes gpu’s have there little quirks now hopefully it’ll work fine…
I did notice a bug about in regards to the said gpu, and if xxx version doesn’t work then you’ll have no choice but to do the hard way and repeat on each kernel update.
Well, as mentioned, it’s the newest kernel 2.6.27.21-0.1-default with a perfectly running KDE 4.2.3.
Seems to be no working driver around for the Quadro NVS 140 at the moment due to the fact that installing it the hard way gave him same results.
