[SWLUG] SuSE update

[Peter Bradley]

Well...  Here's what the nVidia site says about installing the drivers
under SuSE 8.2

II. SuSE Linux 8.2
    SuSE Linux Desktop (SLD)
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1) Kernel sources must be installed and configured. Usually this means
installing the 'kernel-source' package with YaST2, update it - if not
already done - via YaST2 Online Update (YOU) and configure it then
with the following commands:

 cd /usr/src/linux
 make cloneconfig && make dep

2) Use the nvidia installer for 1.0-6106.

 sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6106-pkg1.run

3) Configure XFree86 with

 sax2 -m 0=nvidia (0 is a digit, not a letter!)

NOTE: There is no need to try to enable 3D support. It's already
      enabled, when the nvidia driver is running. Ignore the
      misleading error message, that 3D support can't be enabled.
      This problem will be fixed with SuSE > 9.0 and is related to the
      latest nvidia driver release.

Point 1) worries me.  What's all that about?

Peter