Bug 401762

Summary:	nvidia driver from http://opensuse-community.org/nvidia.ymp for different kernel
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Sebastian Turzański <dpbasti>
Component:	X11 3rd Party Driver	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	32bit
OS:	openSUSE 11.0
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Description Sebastian Turzański 2008-06-19 14:23:46 UTC

the problem that driver module is not loading during startup still exists with todays GM - the driver is compiled against different kernel version- 
the worse problem is also that Sax is not able to return to nv driver when You have nvidia driver installed and unexperienced user can be locked in text mode. What helps is running
 sax2 -r 0=nv

Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2008-06-19 14:34:41 UTC

Can you reproduce this issue when using the installation instructions on 

http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html#1
http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html#2

instead? Please attach /etc/X11/xorg.conf, /var/log/Xorg.0.log and the output of 'hwinfo --gfxcard'. Most likely your hardware is not supported by the driver (RPM).

Comment 2 Sebastian Turzański 2008-06-19 19:34:49 UTC

yes i followed the HOWTO and when You do it it's reproducible- what I'm saying is that NVIDIA can be easily installed when You compile by yourself. The RPM contains nvidia module for different kernel version than the one installed in Opensuse 11.0 by default. 
IT has nothing to do with my nvidia card. Now I'm using NVIDIA driver when I installed kernel-source RPM and compiled the NVIDIA by myself.

linuxatemki:/home/polrus # hwinfo --gfxcard
23: PCI(AGP) 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
  [Created at pci.310]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_221
  Unique ID: VCu0.wcYHBsGv8V5
  Parent ID: vSkL.ITQqGs0XM26
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "nVidia GeForce 6200 (0x0221)"
  Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x0221 "GeForce 6200 (0x0221)"
  SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc."
  SubDevice: pci 0x820c
  Revision: 0xa1
  Driver: "nvidia"
  Driver Modules: "nvidia"
  Memory Range: 0xe8000000-0xe8ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff (rw,prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xe9000000-0xe9ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 16 (218858 events)
  I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw)
  Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000221sv00001043sd0000820Cbc03sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    XFree86 v4 Server Module: nv
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #35 (PCI bridge)

Primary display adapter: #23

Comment 3 Stefan Dirsch 2008-06-19 20:15:20 UTC

> yes i followed the HOWTO and when You do it it's reproducible-
I don't think so. I bet that no package is autoselected and you selected them manuallly.

"If no additional packages are autoselected, your card is not supported
 by the driver (RPMs) at the moment."

>what I'm saying
>is that NVIDIA can be easily installed when You compile by yourself. The RPM
>contains nvidia module for different kernel version than the one installed in
>Opensuse 11.0 by default. 
>IT has nothing to do with my nvidia card. Now I'm using NVIDIA driver when I
>installed kernel-source RPM and compiled the NVIDIA by myself.

I'm sorry, but your conclusiong are wrong.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 357366 ***