NVIDIA
The NVIDIA drivers can't be integrated into SUSE because of their license. Fortunately for new users, SUSE provides a script to install the NVIDIA drivers. This script doesn't work all the time as it's expected to do. I don't know why. If the script doesn't work, this is the right place to start.
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Download NVIDIA Drivers
First of all, if you tried using the script then you can find the NVIDIA installer package in /usr/share/doc/nvidia If the installer package is not there go to NVIDIA Download Page, and get the latest drivers for your computer.
Install the drivers
If you are in runlevel 5, go to runlevel 3 by typing the following comand as root in one of the consoles
telinit 3
Now go to the directory containing the drivers.
/usr/share/doc/nvidia
or
/the/path/where/you/saved/the/drivers/from/nvidia/website
Now simply type the following and follow instructions
sh NVIDIA-Linux-<arch>-<version>-<build>-<pkg#>.run -q
Configure X.org
The next step is to configure the X.org to use the new nvidia drivers. To do this, type the following
sax2 -m 0=nvidia
Sax2 will start it's configuration program in X. You can do more tweaking here, but this is your option. With 10.0 you won't need to specify -m 0=nvidia any more, sax automatically detects and uses it if you activate 3D acceleration.
Legacy chipset support
Both SUSE 10.0 and 10.1 support the legacy NVIDIA chipsets (TNT, GeForce 256, GeForce 2 GTS, etc...) via the open source "nv" driver, which unfortunately means degraded performance. In order to enable accelerated 3D support on these older cards via the closed source driver from NVIDIA, driver version 1.0-7174 has to be used.
Unfortunately, this driver no longer compiles against Linux kernel 2.6.16 source code, therefore it has to be patched in order to be used with SUSE 10.1. The patch can be downloaded here: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg0-opensuse-10.1-i386.patch. First, download the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg0.run driver from NVIDIA. To patch the file execute the following steps from the terminal
cd directory/where/you/saved/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg0.run sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg0.run --extract-only cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg0 patch -p1 < path/to/the/patch/file cd .. sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg0/usr/bin/makeself.sh \ --target-os Linux --target-arch x86 \ NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg0 \ NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg0-patched.run \ "legacy NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 1.0-7174" \ ./nvidia-installer
cp NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg0/usr/src/nv/makedevices.sh /usr/sbin echo /usr/sbin/makedevices.sh >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local
The following information was taken from the Nvidia Installer HOWTO. Besides patching the driver, it is also necessary to remove the /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia file because it specifies incompatible driver options. Additionally, since driver 1.0-7174 doesn't support udev, it is necessary to generate all of its device files statically. On SUSE 10.0 this can be accomplished easily by adding the following lines to the /etc/udev/static_devices.txt file:
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
Since SUSE 10.1/SLES10/SLED10 do the following:
mknod -m 666 /lib/udev/devices/nvidia0 c 195 0 mknod -m 666 /lib/udev/devices/nvidia1 c 195 1 mknod -m 666 /lib/udev/devices/nvidia2 c 195 2 mknod -m 666 /lib/udev/devices/nvidia3 c 195 3 mknod -m 666 /lib/udev/devices/nvidia4 c 195 4 mknod -m 666 /lib/udev/devices/nvidia5 c 195 5 mknod -m 666 /lib/udev/devices/nvidia6 c 195 6 mknod -m 666 /lib/udev/devices/nvidia7 c 195 7 mknod -m 666 /lib/udev/devices/nvidiactl c 195 255
Prior to installing the NVIDIA driver you have to shut down the X server. The easiest way to do this is to switch to the Linux console by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 and logging in as root. Then type
telinit 3
to switch to a runlevel without X window system login support. You can install the driver as follows
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg0-patched.run -q
Once the driver has been successfully installed, take a look at /etc/X11/xorg.conf to make sure that the "nvidia" driver is being used instead of the opensource "nv" driver. To see whether the X server is able to start up, type X on the console and press Enter. You should see the NVIDIA logo on a white screen. To quit the X server hit Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. If you've gotten this far successfully, you can safely switch to runlevel 5. Type in the following on the command line
telinit 5; exit