nvidia hardway method can't find the kernel source path

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hello guys,
the nvidia nouveau built-in driver for sled11sp2 is not working properly with my computer. the 1024x768 resolution doesn’t show correctly in my screen. i had opensuse 11.2 last week and it worked like a charm with the proprietary nvidia driver.

after the new installation to sled11sp2, i can’t find a way to install the proprietary nvidia driver. when installing, it says that the driver can’t find the kernel-source-path (for kernel.h or something like that). and that’s kind of weird as i have already installed gcc, make, kernel-devel-pae, kernel-source, etc.

i tried re-reading from http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Nvidia_the_hard_way and i still can’t get it to work/install.

any help from you guys to solve this issue is highly appreciated.
warm regards,
Omar

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Hi
I upgraded my desktop from SP1 to SP2 last week and all is fine in
nvidia world…

Normally I grab the one direct from nvidia.

Then;

su -
init 3
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-295.33.run -aq

In your case run;

sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia

init 5 && exit

You may need to blacklist nouveau.

Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 3.0.13-0.27-default
up 1 day 7:53, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.05
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU

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thank you malcolm for your quick reply. :rolleyes:
after viewing your message i realized i was installing an old/outdated version of the nvidia driver.

after downloading/installing the newest one with the steps above, everything works beautifully again.
SLED11SP2 is a very polished distro. i LOVE it. they have system sounds back (great!).

now off-topic: if i want to install other rpms for programs/games, which rpm version should i use? (the ones from opensuse12.1, 11.4, 11.3,11.2?)
which one qualifies for SLED11sp2 in order not to break things or have dependency problems?

thanks again!
Omar

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Hi
Only ones for either SP1 or SP2 :wink: Add the SDK as well…

Are there some specific rpms, do you use the Open Build Service and or
packman?

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 3.0.13-0.27-default
up 1 day 19:58, 2 users, load average: 0.10, 0.04, 0.05
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU