Installation of NVIDIA Drivers Version 4349 or Higher

Support knowledgebase (wessels_nvidia4349)
Applies to

SuSE Linux: Versions since 7.1

Situation

You want to install the new NVIDIA drivers version 1.0-4349 or higher.

Procedure

Drivers from version 1.0-4349 on are delivered by NVIDIA only as executable files. For this reason, the driver installation to date differs enormously from this installation method.

In the next lines, the necessary steps to install/uninstall these drivers are listed. Please note that the NVIDIA drivers exceed the scope of our free-of-charge installation support. For queries or problems regarding these drivers, you are welcome to contact the NV forum (http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14) or our Advanced Support hotline.

If you use a version of SuSE Linux previous to 8.2, you will find the installation instructions on our ftp server under:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/nvidia-installer-HOWTO

If you use an older version, we recommend you to read this HOWTO before you start the installation.

Update via YaST Online Update (YOU)

  1. Start YaST Online Update
  2. Select a mirror server and launch the manual update
  3. Select the update fetchnvidia-1
  4. Read and accept the license regulations of the driver
  5. Once the update is completed, finish YOU
  6. Restart your computer

Download

NVIDIA drivers are available at http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp. Download the required driver for your version and save it in the directory /tmp.

Installation

The following steps are necessary for the driver installation in SuSE Linux 8.2:
  1. Log out of the graphical interface
  2. Press CTRL+ALT+F1
  3. Log in as root user
  4. Execute the command
    init 3
    
  5. Change to the directory /tmp with the command
    cd /tmp
    

    and execute the following command

    chmod 700 NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4349.run
    ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4349.run
    

    Note that the file must be executed with ./!

  6. Follow the instructions displayed on the screen

For further information on this driver refer to the file


/usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README.EN

You can read this README in text mode with the command


less /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README

or in a browser of your choice. The system must be rebooted after installing the driver. To use the driver, the graphical interface must be reconfigured with SaX2 first. For further information on SaX2, refer to

SuSE Linux 8.1 or higher http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_sax247.html

SuSE Linux up to 8.0 http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_sax2.html

You can obtain additional information on the driver installation by executing the NVIDIA installer as follows:


./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4349.run --help
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4349.run -A

To uninstall the driver, start the program with the suffix --uninstall:


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


Keywords: DRIVER, X11, NVIDIA, 4349, GRAPHICS

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