Bugzilla – Bug 119834
NVIDIA Binary 3D Driver needs constant re-installation!
Last modified: 2005-10-03 08:08:47 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.
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