177.78 is for the newer Nvidia cards, I am stuck with one of the older ones which are only supported by their ‘legacy’ drivers (173.14.xx), see
Appendix A. Supported NVIDIA GPU Products
They may or may not update those drivers for the new kernel like (as you report) they have with the cutting-edge driver.
I tried the 64 bits liveCD on a Toshiba satellite laptop (intel 965 graphic card). openSUSE loads with a wrong screen resolution (as usual with former openSUSE liveCDs on this machine), but when I try to change it the screen remains black (I can move the cursor, but nothing else) and I need to restart the machine with the old REISUB routine.
I used the latest 177.. Beta with no problems; working great:)
A short question:
I cannot use my mouse with beta2, it just doesnt work (but it worked during the install procedure). Anyone with the same bug (and the solution 
)?
(11.0 works fine…)
At the bootsplash, type “3” or “level 3”
boots to runlevel 3
login as root
type “yast2”
you may have to navigate with the tab & arrow keys
fix the mouse; set model, etc.
save out to the # prompt
type “reboot”
See if that helps…
I’ll give it a try. Or maybe I’ll just wait until the release because I’m not really an experienced user, you would call me noob
(Although I was able to activate the extra mouse buttons under 11.0)
my system: Dell M1330 and a Logitech MX510 (and both, the touchpad and the mouse do not work)
I had the strangest experience with the beta 2. I am not sure what happened. I not sure how to submit a bug or even if it is a bug, but I installed the beta 2. I booted into it a few times without any problems. Then my DVD drive (TSST Corp CDDVDW SH-S203)completely disappeared from my drive list. It was no longer detected by BIOS. It is a sata dvd burner attached to SB600 Gigabyte MA 770 DS3 rev 1.0 motherboard running in Native IDE mode. I booted into windows and the drive was no longer visible. I was a little concerned. I opened the computer, and attached the drive to my Rosewill Sata II RC-211 pcie RAID card SIL 3112 chipset and fortunately it was detected and I booted into windows. I would experience random lookups with the computer intermittenly not recognizing the drive. I download the firmware for the drive and reflashed its firmware and that seemed to resolve the issue. I no longer have issues with the drive in windows. I am worried about any further testing with Beta 2 though, I suspect it to be the cause though I am not sure how.
Its highly unlikey this had any thing to do with Linux. On the contrary, … by booting into Windows, and observing the same problem, all you likely did was confirm that the problem was NOT with Linux (but rather it was hardware/bios related).
I tried 177.80 and it fails to compile.
ERROR: Unable to build the NVIDIA kernel module.
HUGE EDIT: Oh crap!!! Forget this post for a moment, I realized I forgot to copy the new 177.80 to my sdb HD, the one I use for testing. I had the older 173.08 version. That’s what I call a **** stupid mistake. lolllll
Forget the rest of the post
The first of many errors is as follow
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.27-rc7-12-default/build \
KBUILD_SRC=/usr/src/linux-2.6.27-rc7-12 \
KBUILD_EXTMOD="/tmp/selfgz8613/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.08-pkg2/usr/src/nv"
-f /usr/src/linux-2.6.27-rc7-12/Makefile \
modules
test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( \
echo; \
echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \
echo " include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are mis
sing."; \
The last errors are
/tmp/selfgz8613/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.08-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c:1853: error:
unknown field ‘nopage’ specified in initializer
/tmp/selfgz8613/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.08-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.c:1853: warnin
g: initialization from incompatible pointer type
make[4]: *** [/tmp/selfgz8613/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.08-pkg2/usr/src/nv/nv.
o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [_module_/tmp/selfgz8613/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.08-pkg2/usr/sr
c/nv] Error 2
make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
nvidia.ko failed to build!
make[1]: *** [module] Error 1
make: *** [module] Error 2
-> Error.
ERROR: Unable to build the NVIDIA kernel module.
I noticed something common in the errors, it says 173.08. It’s 177.80 that I ran. I know nothing about how this package complies.
I have a 8500 or 8600GT card and they say it fits for this chip.
Any ideas?
tnx in advance!
my notebook also have nvidia 8600GT . I check the installer log and it show 177 not 173 . I think you mixup with 173 .
I also have same error message when try compile 173 .
Ok I installed a good version now, 177.80, not 173.08 
and it’s true, it does work quite nice! All info on card is listed now, right off the bat, quite nice. Nvidia also fixed a 5 years old critical Kopete bug.
Has anyone been able to make compiz work? It loads, I get no error, when I click on “ENABLE DESKTOP EFFECTS” from the simple compiz setting manager it does flicker the screen very quickly, when I disable the effects. So something loads, just typing “LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 compiz &” returns a good result and no error. But none of the effects are working.
I have done the
su -
nvidia-xconfig --composite
nvidia-xconfig --render-accel
nvidia-xconfig --add-argb-glx-visuals -d 24
Oh, but I did not try the --replace ccp &
Maybe that’s just it?
In xorg.conf I do have
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "freetype"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
EndSection
...
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Device "Device[0]"
Monitor "Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
...
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
I am with KDE3.5.10.
Anyone is able to run compiz with nvidia?