Re: [LUG] suse 8.2

[James Ogden <zemned@xxxxxxxxxx>]

nvidia has a universal linux driver package (unified architecture
apparently) on its website.  http://www.nvidia.com.  If you are trying
to uninstall from this package, you do a :

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4349.run --uninstall

as root.

install being

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4349.run 

its really user friendly.


Whenever I'm messing around with video, I tend to alter the  runlevel in
/etc/inittab so X doesn't boot by default.  Once the new drivers are
intalled, it is then simply a matter of modifying the file again to
allow your system to boot X on startup (although you can test from the
command line using startx.  I run Redhat, I assume that suse uses the
inittab also.  Good luck ;).

James. 

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 11:36, Paul Sutton wrote:
> I think the nvidia drivers, are version specific,   I upgraded from 8.0 to
> 8.1 and there were issues with the cd devices, (fixed now).   I assume
> however they have fixed the update utility, im 8.2 as 8.1 said there was
> nothing to upgrade. It should also be possible to upgrade kde, open office,
> etc, with out having to upgrade the entire system, not sure if you can
> update individual packages from the 8.2 cdrom.  Open office is integrated
> quite well.
> 
> anyway I am off to figure out how to remove my nvidia drivers,  set X to
> default VGA so I can install the Nvidia drivers, without having nv in the
> XF86Config file,  then reinstall the nvidia drivers and hopefully have X
> working with 3d accelaration.  wish me luck
> 
> paul
> 
> 
> From: "Keith Lawford" <klsb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 10:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [LUG] suse 8.2
> 
> 
> >
> > Dear David
> >
> > Is the offer of Suse 8.2 open to all. At the moment I am using 8.00 and
> > find it to be the best of all the distributions I have tried. However, I
> > would like to update my versions of KDE, Gnome, Evolution. Does 8.2
> > offer better integration of OpenOffice? My machine is 500amd 256Ram.
> > Would it be possible to upgrade from 8 to 8.2 without needing to
> > reinstall the necessary Nvidia drivers?
> >
> > One more question. The print quality when I use Linux is mucher poorer
> > than when I use windows. I have tried to get cups to work but nothing
> > happens. My printer is an acient HP deskjet portable.
> >
> > All the best
> >
> > Keith Lawford
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 21:10, David Johnson wrote:
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> > > Paul Sutton wrote:
> > >
> > > >Anyone planning to get suse 8.2 when it's released?
> > > >
> > > >paul
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Already got it if you would like a copy...
> > >
> > >
> > > David.
> > >
> > > - --
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