Nvidia driver on suse 10.2

[BriGy86]

I have followed the instructions on this site using YAST. It looks like the packages are installed yet the driver still comes up as unknown and when I drag windows it's still choppy as hell.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/l...ay_ia32_100.14.11.html

I've even downloaded the driver and tried installing it the way they say using the SH command. But it ends up saying something about not being able to find a kernal interface. It then can't find one to download. Then it can't find a compiler fails and exits

and insight would be great.

BTW I have an Asus 7600GS

here is the copied event log it said to take a look at
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nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Sat Jun 30 17:24:55 2007

option status:
license pre-accepted : false
update : false
force update : false
expert : false
uninstall : false
driver info : false
precompiled interfaces : true
no ncurses color : false
query latest version : false
OpenGL header files : true
no questions : false
silent : false
no recursion : false
no backup : false
kernel module only : false
sanity : false
add this kernel : false
no runlevel check : false
no network : false
no ABI note : false
no RPMs : false
no kernel module : false
force SELinux : default
no X server check : false
force tls : (not specified)
X install prefix : (not specified)
X library install path : (not specified)
X module install path : (not specified)
OpenGL install prefix : (not specified)
OpenGL install libdir : (not specified)
utility install prefix : (not specified)
utility install libdir : (not specified)
doc install prefix : (not specified)
kernel name : (not specified)
kernel include path : (not specified)
kernel source path : (not specified)
kernel output path : (not specified)
kernel install path : (not specified)
proc mount point : /proc
ui : (not specified)
tmpdir : /tmp
ftp mirror : ftp://download.nvidia.com
RPM file list : (not specified)

Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> License accepted.
-> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li
ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f
rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes)
-> No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp site;
this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for
your kernel.
ERROR: Unable to find the development tool `cc` in your path; please make sure
that you have the package 'gcc' installed. If gcc is installed on your
system, then please check that `cc` is in your PATH.
ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file
'/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions
on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux
driver download page at www.nvidia.com.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Install kernel-source, gcc, and make through yast. Then go through the installer.

 

[BriGy86]

nothing comes up when I search for Kernel source and When I do a search for Gcc everything that comes up says it's already installed.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Type kernel-source (with the hyphen). If that doesn't work make sure you have this repository in yast.

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/

Then try searching again.

Or if you're running the 2.6.18.2-34 kernel (the latest stable one available, type "uname -r" in the command-line if you're not sure) then here's a link to the rpm.

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/suse/i586/kernel-source-2.6.18.2-34.i586.rpm

 

[BriGy86]

Originally posted by: SleepWalkerX
Type kernel-source (with the hyphen). If that doesn't work make sure you have this repository in yast.

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/

Then try searching again.

Or if you're running the 2.6.18.2-34 kernel (the latest stable one available, type "uname -r" in the command-line if you're not sure) then here's a link to the rpm.

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/suse/i586/kernel-source-2.6.18.2-34.i586.rpm

Looks like this worked. I added that repository in YasT. Then searched for gcc and it came up. I installed the entry that came up as simply gcc and then when I ran the SH (file name) command it ran properly. Now my video does function like crap

I thank you VERY much!
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