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How to install 9800 Nvidia Drivers on OpenSuse 11.1
I recently had a hell of a time getting my GeForce 9800 NVidia card integrated into my OpenSuse installation. I looked around and everthing in the search results that I tried didn’t seem to work, so maybe this will help some people.
- From a clean installation, go to http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA and select the one-click install that corresponds to your model of video card.
- Your browser should ask you if you want to save or open the .ymp file, just click ‘open’.
- You should then be taken through an installer that will download and install your drivers. After this, you’ll be prompted to reboot. I guess for most people, this is all you’d have to do and you’d be running your NVidia card without problems. If you’re an unfortunate bastard like I was (which you probably are because you’re reading this), then you’ll need to follow the rest of these instructions.
- Go superuser (su).
- Type ’sax2 -r’. This should make your computer do some type of crazy shit that you don’t really need to be concerned about. All you and I need to know is that it’s probably going to result in your X server starting successfully.
- You should be brought back to the shell. Type ’startx’ to load your X environment.
- Once it loads, type ‘nvidia-settings’ and do any additional configuration you need to do for your video card (i.e. setting up multiple monitors)
- Restart the machine through your X server’s restart function. Sometimes, the first time you restart, your settings will be a little screwy. I don’t know why, but restarting a second time usually works.
Good luck!
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12:26 pm on July 25th, 2009
hello there. i think i have the same prob as you did. thing is im really new to linux and need help. when you say type, where do i type this stuff? what is superuser? please help. i have installed the driver but nothing shows up and i also dont get a promp to reboot computer after i have installed it. thanks!
1:18 pm on July 25th, 2009
the typing is done at a shell. in my case, the windows environment failed to load after installing the driver,
installing drivers is going to be confusing if you’re not farmiliar with linux. it might be helpful to read up a little on basic linux commands before attempting this.
good luck.