Re: [SLUG] Open Suse 10.3 and yast and NVIDIA

[jam <jam@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 05:00 +1100, slug-request@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>         I have been searching on the net and would like to know the
>         yast commands
>         that one can use in a terminal basically to install a program
>         and to
>         search for a program in the Yast repositories.

Ummm ... yast!

If you're using X then you get the GUI verion, else the curses version.


>         Aslo can I use the nvidia drivers from the nvidia web-site on
>         Open Suse 10.3?

I'm sure you can, but as Sheerkahn says "None of that nonsense"

I get THE kernel source
Download NVIDIA offering eg NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.19-pkg2.run
build

You ought to be able to do with kernel headers. That's never worked for
me (but I do fiddle lots)

James