From: Keith Roberts (listskar.eclipse.co.uk)
Date: Sun Apr 18 2004 - 15:41:31 CDT

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On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Anders Johansson wrote:

> To: suse-securitysuse.com
> From: Anders Johansson <andjohrydsbo.net>
> Subject: Re: [suse-security] Kernel source not matching kernel update
>
> On Sunday 18 April 2004 21:19, Keith Roberts wrote:
> > When I use the nvidia-installer it always compiles the
> > nvidia kernel-driver interface for me, as no other options
> > are found, even though I use the standard SuSE 8.1 k_deflt
> > kernel.
>
> Right, according to the README, for suse versions 8.1 and below, they are
> supposed to provide RPMs. And there is one for the 2.4.19 kernel at
> ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-5336/
>
> although there doesn't seem to be one for the new 2.4.21 kernel
>
> but the advise seems a bit confused, since they seem to say both to install
> the rpm *and* run the installer, which seems a bit redundant.
>
> Anyways, note that the README suggests that the nvidia installer isn't
> intended to work with 8.1, which is as you discovered yourself

Perhaps that's where I went wrong. I got most of the
install done with nvidia-installer. then had to finish it off by
hand myself.

Keith Roberts

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