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From: Martin on 2 Jun 2010 05:14 On 02/06/10 10:50, Eef Hartman wrote: > Martin <martin(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >> There isn't a 'nvidia-settings' program IN the >> x11-video-nvidia-96.43.16 > > Before my previous message, I grabbed the rpm from the NVidia repo with > wget http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.1/i586/x11-video-nvidia-96.43.16-24.1.i586.rpm > and looked into that rpm with > rpm -qpl x11-video-nvidia-96.43.16-24.1.i586.rpm | grep nvidia-settings > and behold, there IS: > /usr/bin/nvidia-settings > and even a man page and user guide > /usr/share/man/man1/nvidia-settings.1.gz > /usr/share/doc/packages/x11-video-nvidia/nvidia-settings-user-guide.txt > > So either you got "another x11-video-nvidia-96.43.16 package" > or you didn't look far enough. I relied on what Yast said about the package. I installed using 1-Click it was this that installed Packman and the nvidia-settings it contained. > PS: the -24.1 part of the RPM name might be different for another > openSUSE version, use "zypper search -s x11-video-nvidia" to get > the exact version number > > I cannot unpack/run it, of course, as I already got another NVidia > package installed (this is rather new hardware, the 96.43 release > is much too old for this machine). Thanks for your help. I am a relative Newbie to Suse Linux 11.2. Given time I will get there :o) -- Martin in Zuid Holland
From: Eef Hartman on 2 Jun 2010 05:59 Martin <martin(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: > Thanks for your help. I am a relative Newbie to Suse Linux 11.2. Given > time I will get there :o) Just to make sure I got the 11.2 version too (just change the "11.1" part in the wget into "11.2", it turns out it IS exactly the same version) and IT got a nvidia-settings program too (it is in fact almost the same package as for 11.1, exact that the executables and libraries have been compiled against the 11.2 libraries). I never ever use the "one-click install" anymore, it failed too many times on me, so I don't really trust it. -- ****************************************************************** ** Eef Hartman, Delft University of Technology, dept. SSC/ICT ** ** e-mail: E.J.M.Hartman(a)tudelft.nl - phone: +31-15-27 82525 ** ******************************************************************
From: Martin on 2 Jun 2010 06:25 On 02/06/10 11:59, Eef Hartman wrote: > Martin <martin(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >> Thanks for your help. I am a relative Newbie to Suse Linux 11.2. Given >> time I will get there :o) > > Just to make sure I got the 11.2 version too (just change the "11.1" > part in the wget into "11.2", it turns out it IS exactly the same > version) and IT got a nvidia-settings program too (it is in fact > almost the same package as for 11.1, exact that the executables and > libraries have been compiled against the 11.2 libraries). > > I never ever use the "one-click install" anymore, it failed too many > times on me, so I don't really trust it. It was the first time that I used one -click". I feel the same way about using it again now. -- Martin in ZH
From: Martin on 2 Jun 2010 17:45 On 02/06/10 13:00, houghi wrote: > Martin wrote: >>> I never ever use the "one-click install" anymore, it failed too many >>> times on me, so I don't really trust it. >> >> It was the first time that I used one -click". I feel the same way about >> using it again now. > > Strange. I have used the once-click install many, many times and never > ever had an issue with it. Including with software for my NVidea card. For the same Nvidia card?
From: Martin on 3 Jun 2010 04:22
On 03/06/10 00:58, houghi wrote: > Martin wrote: >> On 02/06/10 13:00, houghi wrote: >>> Martin wrote: >>>>> I never ever use the "one-click install" anymore, it failed too many >>>>> times on me, so I don't really trust it. >>>> >>>> It was the first time that I used one -click". I feel the same way about >>>> using it again now. >>> >>> Strange. I have used the once-click install many, many times and never >>> ever had an issue with it. Including with software for my NVidea card. >> >> For the same Nvidia card? > > The hardware has nothing to do with one-click-install. It might with the problems I have. :o) > I was refering > that it apparently failed "too many times" which I think is very > strange. I suspect the problem I have is caused by Nvidia providing one driver to support too many legacy cards. |