SuseNvidia Saga
Paul A. Bennett
It is a very bad idea to have the system enabled to perform any sort of automatic updating. The likelyhood is that it will break itself. Why we want to model things after Windows is beyond me. A computer should not think, it should simply obey. Only use manual updating. Besides, unless you know something is broke, why fix it? And much of the security stuff is superfluous, in many contexts. Such on very small LANs behind firewalls, where the users are trusted.
The Linux distributor is not in the business of providing a comprehensively designed system that will remain coherent when one or another package is updated. Rather, they offer a hodge-podge of packages, often many different programs to do the same thing, and few of them finished enough to be other than a headache to figure out where their limitations will show up, at 2 or 40 hours into a project.
Hi My server is running kernel 2.6.6. I have a HighPoint RocketRaid 133 card with 2x 120 Gb drives attatched...
So to expect it not to break itself after an auto-update is unrealistic. A Linux system, particularly for the desktop, needs a lot of hand holding. Automatic anything only makes the situation more confusing and unpredictable. For instance, I have finally deactivated my auto-hardware config thingy, Suse plugger, because it kept breaking my customizations toetc-fstab anddev symlinks.
As I recall, installing the nvidia driver requires preparing some things with the kernel sources. You should check that your running kernel and sources are consistent. Do "uname -a" followed by a look atusr-src to see what source theusr-src-linux symlink is pointing at. If they aren't consistent, then it is hopeless until you get the source to match the kernel binary.
After that, simply following the instructions here shuold get things working:
Hello, I got this case I can't explain: Router: IP: 10.10.0.46-21 Laptop: Windows IP: 10.10.3.112-21 Linux IP: 10.10.3.99-21 Ping works Ok...
At last I was able to get some time to look at the problem. I followed every one of your links, I've studied...
Note, I just installed a new Suse 9.1 system, and let the YOU update the kernel, and install the nvidia driver. Everything worked fine, and all I had to do was run sax2 to set up X. Didn't even need to use any funny options for sax2 like I did when I did it all manually.
In he past, I didn't trust YOU so I did it manually. Ultimately, you should be able to get it straightened out.
Consider also the Suse mailing list.
Good day!
-- Christopher R. Carlen Principal Laser-Optical Technologist Sandia National Laboratories CA USA