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Re: [tlug] NVIDIA Geforce 9600GT driver on opensuse



Raedwolf Summoner wrote:
> Lewske Wada <ryu@example.com> wrote:
>
> > > running.) Nvidia does have some rpm packages, but does not say which
> > > ones are for which cards, as far as I can tell.
> >
> > I believe you have to go to their 'Advanced Search' and there you need
> > to find a nvidia driver that fits your environment and has the latest
> > archive.
> >
> > June 01, 2009 version is at least stable enough, as far as I can tell.
> > Remember you should run the shell script on bare console with root
> > access and CC environment variable enabled.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, Ryu. I am a neophyte with Linux and am not
> real sure here, but IIUC, running the shell script on bare console
> means booting at runlevel=3, i.e. without x windows, and manually
> installing? I have downloaded a package for that from nvidia, but
> can't get my machine to boot at runlevel 3.

You can always delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf or move it somewhere by
root access, and restart and then enter console without starting X.
It should help.

Ryu



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