Sunday, April 5, 2009

openSUSE 11.1 - NVIDIA driver version 180.* installation/upgrade issue

Issue:

Upgrade of NVIDIA version from 177.* to 180.* causing X to fail


Cause:

nvidia.ko still symlinked to older kernel


Solution:

1) init 3

2) Upgrade to NVIDIA 180.* driver (execute NVIDIA*.run)

3) rm /lib/modules/*kernel version*/weak-updates/updates/nvidia.ko

4) ln -s /lib/modules/*kernel version*/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko /lib/modules/*kernel version*/weak-updates/updates/nvidia.ko

5) init 5

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