[Ma-linux] Was: Installing Nvidia drivers DID NOT go well NOW: Opensuse is BS

[Mike Shade]

Honestly, Jay -- I think it would've been about 100x easier to just go 
with the darned .bin installer at nvidia.com.  Never had this mess of 
issues with it... You run the installer, it modifies your xorg.conf, and 
you're done.  As long as your kernel source is available, it doesn't 
have a problem.  No new kernels, no messing with grub.conf.

My 2c.  I'd like to further encourage you onto the (k)Ubuntu train though ;)

Mike

Jay Hart wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 20:02 -0500, Jay Hart wrote:
>>     
>>> Still would not have helped, even if I switched from 'nvidia' to the 'nv'.
>>>
>>> Once again, when I updated to the 2.6.22.13-0.3-bigsmp kernel, I didn't get
>>> an
>>> initrd image, so I couldn't boot that either.
>>>
>>> SSSSOOOOOO,
>>>
>>> I'm compiling my own kernel, and should get an initrd in the process as
>>> well.
>>>
>>> If this doesn't work I'm got the latest Kubuntu 7.10 ready, just need to
>>> backup a few files, and away I go.
>>>
>>> Sick to say, I'm hoping my kernel fails, I'm totally disgusted with
>>> OpenSuse.
>>>
>>> Jay
>>>
>>>       
>> For Debian and (I know for older) Red Hat distri.. there is/was a
>> command to build a "initrd" for a kernel, It's:
>>   mkinitramfs - generate an initramfs image
>>
>> You would call it something like:
>>   mkinitramfs 2.6.22.13-0.3-bigsmp
>>
>> And for Ubuntu there is also the command:
>>   update-initramfs
>>
>> { which is part of the kernel installer scripts }
>>
>> Check your setup for one of these commands and/or the package
>> "initramfs-tools".
>>   { a quick Google said that OpenSuse has such a package }
>>     
>
> Did a search for above package at opensuse software repos, didn't find it.
>
> I've been playing around with mkinitrd, but so far no luck with getting any
> good bad output, mostly errors.
>
> Any ideas how I'm going to resolve this?
>
> Jay
>   
>> Note: You don't need to compile a kernel locally in order to build a
>> custom initrd. The files inside the initrd are copies of your binary
>> modules from /lib/modules/{kernel version}/ and some scripts that do the
>> loading.
>>
>> Note: In the past I have even built "initrd.img" images by hand, but now
>> it's much much easier to use the scripts.
>>
>> --
>>  DonJr
>>
>>
>>     
>
>
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