On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 15:08 +0100, Christian Lange wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have installed Suse 10.0 this morning. Everything worked fine. My
> Graphics card is "NVidia GeForce 2 Ti". Since the "nv" driver that is
> built into Suse doesn´t support 3D, and the nvidia-driver, which I can
> download using YAST, does not do anything at all (big *slap* for the
> Suse developers),

And what makes you think it does nothing? Works fine for probably
everybody else. Just take a look at the frame rate difference between
the two.

>  I decided to download and install the original NVidia driver. So I
> got "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run" (later versions do not
> support the GeForce2 Ti any more - I don´t know why).
> "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run -q" installed the driver, a
> kernel module was built, successful. Afterward, i executed "sax2 -m
> 0=nvidia" to configure my screen. 3D Support was available at this
> point and I was happy. :)
> But after a reboot, the driver didn´t work anymore. I searched the
> internet and found out that I have to modify
> the /etc/udev/static-devices.txt and add these lines:
> nvidia0 c 195 0 666
> nvidia1 c 195 1 666
> nvidia2 c 195 2 666
> nvidia3 c 195 3 666
> nvidia4 c 195 4 666
> nvidia5 c 195 5 666
> nvidia6 c 195 6 666
> nvidia7 c 195 7 666
> nvidiactl c 195 255 666
> Now everything was working fine, event a reboot could not destroy the
> diver module.
> 
> Then, I made an online update using YAST. Since I have done this
> update, the nvidia driver doesn´t work anymore (I could use "nv"
> instead, but this does not provide 3D-Support).  dmesg told my
> something about it, and I think the important lines are:
> nvidia: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
> nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.

This is -not- an unusual occurrence. The VMware modules do the same
thing.

> nvidia: Unknown parameter `NVreg_DeviceFileUID'
> 
> What is this? How can the module "taint" the kernel? A new
> installation of the driver doesn´t solve the problem.
> 
> Thanks, Chris
> 
> 
> ========================
> Full dmesg:

It was -NOT- necessary to send the entire dmesg output to only show that
the module "taints" the kernel.

> nvidia: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
> nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
> nvidia: Unknown parameter `NVreg_DeviceFileUID'

> nvidia: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
> nvidia: Unknown parameter `NVreg_DeviceFileUID'

> nvidia: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
> nvidia: Unknown parameter `NVreg_DeviceFileUID'

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998


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