Comments on: Installing NVIDIA Drivers on openSUSE 11.0 & other Linux Distrubutions

By: ben.kevan

ben.kevan — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:05:10 +0000

Hi Rico,

To install change directory (cd) to the location of your NVIDIA installer:

for example
cd /home/rico/download/drivers

here run:
sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.80-pgk2.run

This should run it, if not please give me the errors. Note you’ll have to install gcc and kernel-source first. To do this run (with dvd in drive or on the internet with access to the repos)

sudo zypper install kernel-source gcc

By: rico diaz

rico diaz — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:06:36 +0000

Hello Ben, I want to ask you some help because i am new in opensuse (linux OS’s), i have installed opensuse11 and I can’t install nvidia driver for my pc. I have downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.80-pkg2.run and I can’t make it run. By the way I downloaded it on windows OS because opensuse can’t run my DATACARDGKU modem. Can you give me a step on how to install the driver? thanks in advance.

By: ben.kevan

ben.kevan — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:14:14 +0000

Hi Rod, I did not use sax2. However, to adjust the screen etc correctly (second monitor) you MAY need to check the Activate Dual Head portion within Sax2. If this does not work please feel free to forward me a copy of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and I’ll let you know what I see.

Thanks

By: Rod

Rod — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:57:08 +0000

Did you run sax2 as part of the install? I couldn’t adjust the screen size/position with sax2 as I could with past versions of the driver.

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