On 08/10/2012 05:06 PM, philipg27 wrote:
>
> I’m afraid that your advice on KPackageKit comes a little too late.
> Since it’s part of the standard desktop I rather rashly assumed it was
> something I should use it ! 
i know…lots of folks assume it is a good thing to use, but it is
not…you can read hundreds of post (maybe thousands) in these fora say
to not use it–instead either right click and disable or use YaST to
delete it (i deleted it on my 11.4 as i installed 11.4 in Feb of last
year…and, when moving to 12.x i will elect to not install it)
if i had my way it wouldn’t be installed on openSUSE (since we have a
MUCH better system for us in YaST/zypper) but, it is not up to me.
> To clarify what I believe I did yesterday. I launched KPackageKit and
> rather stupidly selected the “update” “x11-video-nvidiaG02”. Looking at
> my other linux box I see that I probably missed the
> “nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop” and “nvidia-computeG02” updates.
i’m not precisely sure how to fix this…
but, i do not believe it is just a matter of adding
“nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop” and “nvidia-computeG02”…it may be that
but your error message said you have a mismatch of “NVIDIA kernel module
has version 295.49, but this NVIDIA driver component has version 295.71”
that error message didn’t say anything was missing but rather not
matching…
and looking at your list of repos, i recommend (after you get this
driver thing fixed) you read and follow the great advice in the
paragraph beginning with “IMPORTANT” in this note to new folks:
http://tinyurl.com/33qc9vu
and, you might note how my repos look on a day to day basis, here:
http://paste.opensuse.org/83273901 where you will note that i don’t give
the system the chance to ‘see’ a tiny step increase in a nvidia driver
(or anything else) and offer me the opportunity to pull the trigger and
kill my system with mismatched software without thinking…
on the other hand, if i am having trouble with my nvidia, and want to do
something about it i would review the various how-tos and on a temporary
basis enable the nvidia repos and carefully proceed, while thinking…
you might be able to get out of your current mess by doing just that,
begin here: http://tinyurl.com/37v9y7m
i think if you methodically work your way through the nvidia part of
that guide you can manage to get the best driver installed…
do NOT panic and wipe out your data (you have a good backup, right?)
and, if failsafe works then your system can work right again, once you
get the right driver back into it…
please post again if you need better help discovering which driver you
need, and how to get it installed…
and, no matter what–tend to those repos and let us know how you get on.
–
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