nVidia repo off line

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Got a Dell D830 Latitude, circa 2008 & have run openSUSE 11.x versions on it with nVidia drivers.

Did an install of openSUSE 12.1 & want to use the current nVidia drivers.

Video card …

/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -i vga

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G86M [Quadro NVS 135M] [10de:042b] (rev a1)

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/ – 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.

@d830:~> nslookup download.nvidia.com
Server: ..._
Address: ...#53

Non-authoritative answer:
download.nvidia.com canonical name = download-ftp.nvidia.com.edgesuite.net.
download-ftp.nvidia.com.edgesuite.net canonical name = 32940.ftp.download.akadns.net.
Name: 32940.ftp.download.akadns.net
Address: 69.31.121.43

___@d830:~> ping download.nvidia.com
PING 32940.ftp.download.akadns.net (69.31.121.43) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ip-69-31-121-43.nlayer.net (69.31.121.43): icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=52.5 ms
64 bytes from ip-69-31-121-43.nlayer.net (69.31.121.43): icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=54.0 ms
64 bytes from ip-69-31-121-43.nlayer.net (69.31.121.43): icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=54.4 ms

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On 2012-03-08 22:46, markgharvey wrote:
> Can a forum moderator contact nVidia & get them to activate the
> repository?

The nvidia repository is hosted by nvidia, completely outside the control
of SUSE or Novell. Now and then it goes out of the network and you have to
wait.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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The nVIDIA repo seems fine to me? “ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/12.1/”

Thank You,

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I can without a problem browse the repository with Firefox
(ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse).
In the worst case just do the same and download the rpm’s with your
browser until your problem is sorted.

–
PC: oS 11.4 x86_64 | Intel Core i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.6.0 |
GeForce GT 420
Eee PC 1201n: oS 12.1 x86_64 | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | 3GB | KDE 4.8.1
| nVidia ION
eCAFE 800: oS 12.1 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | KDE 3.5.10 |
xf86-video-geode

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adjusted firewall for FTP

Used nvidia.ymp from SDB:NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE

Ran nvidia.ymp

results –

Software installation
Installation was only partially successful.
The following packages could not be installed
• x11-video-nvidiaG02

Then went to Software Manager & searched for nVidia.

checked boxes for
nvidia-computeG02
nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop
x11-video-nvidiaG02
xorg-x11-driver-video-nouveau

install them, rebooted, & video now works much better

thanks everyone for the replies! nice to have a supporting community
~