installing Nvidia driver

[jb]

On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 21:28, Timothy Domst wrote:
> I followed the instructions on the site,   I have SuSE 8.2 now and  
> booted into safe mode,  did "make cloneconfig && make dep", did "sh 
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run", did "sax2 -m 0=nvidia" and went 
> through everything and it was kosher, went to the desktop, and tried to 
> reconfigure with the GUI sax2 and Yast2 and it wouldn't let me, it said 
> the filesystem was locked.  After I rebooted and tried to enable the 
> OpenGL 3D it said the required driver needed to be installed like I 
> hadn't installed it but I did.
> 
> Can anyone help?  I will have 9.0 and the manuals soon so it's not like 
> I will die without help, but I wonder what went wrong.
> 
> I was root all the time.
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Isn't the driver a self extracting? I have Nvidia MX-400 and it
installed fine. The only difference is I had to do a few hand editing
procedures in the inittab file with VI.
JB