Resolved: [PLUG] Upgrading a video driver (nVidia on SuSE 10.1)

Alan Olsen alan.olsen at gmail.com
Thu Apr 12 20:37:05 UTC 2007


On 4/10/07, Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> alan wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> >
> >> What do I need to save when I upgrade a video driver...
>
> > You are going to have problems with the current 97xx drivers.  (It will
> > probably error out and claim that chipset is no longer supported.)  Look
> > in nvidia's software archive for the last of the 96xx series driver for
> > your architecture.
>
> Thanks for the warning. I downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9631-pkg1.run,
> which appears to be that latest 96xx version.
>
> I went out on the openSuSE forum and found detailed instructions for
> installing the driver on a SuSE system. It worked as advertised.
>
> What started all this was trying to install and run Google Earth. They
> now have a Linux version. I got a bunch of error messages when I tried
> to run it. Their help site said it was probably related to the video
> driver. Naturally, the first thing I tried after installing the new
> driver was Google Earth. It works great, and looks better on this system
> than the version I run on my XP laptop.


Glad that worked.  I ran into the problem on my laptop.  One day I tried the
new version and it claimed that my chipset was no longer supported.  Nothing
in the README about it either.



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