Bug 119834

Summary: NVIDIA Binary 3D Driver needs constant re-installation!
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Martin Scharnke <martin.scharnke>
Component: X11 3rd PartyAssignee: Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: RC 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i686   
OS: All   
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Description Martin Scharnke 2005-10-03 07:37:29 UTC 
I run a Celeron-600 (Coppermine) with an NVidia RIVA TNT2 Model 64 (PCI ID 0x002D)
Yes, I know, the latest NVIDIA binary drivers don't support my card.  Following
the advice on the NVIDIA site, I compiled a kernel-interface for the last
version of the binary drivers to support my card: 7174_pkg1.  It compiles fine,
it installs with sax2 fine, it starts X fine, and runs 3D stuff fine.
   But exit X, and re-start, or reboot (either intentionally, or due to power
failure), and X will refuse to restart: "0 Screens Found" is the message, I
think.  I can't verify this, as I'm in X to type this report, and that means
that the last error log has been clobbered by my successful re-start.
   I have successfully re-installed so many times that I have written a script
to do so.  I have to rebuild the kernel interface every time; running sax2 is
not enough.
Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2005-10-03 08:08:47 UTC 
http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html 
http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html#19  
  
[...]  
Since (open)SuSE Linux 10.0 you need to add the following entries to   
/etc/udev/static_devices.txt:   
   
nvidia c 195 0 666   
nvidia c 195 1 666   
nvidia c 195 2 666   
nvidia c 195 3 666   
nvidia c 195 4 666   
nvidia c 195 5 666   
nvidia c 195 6 666   
nvidia c 195 7 666   
nvidiactl c 195 255 666