Major issues pls help

[shotgunner 101]

Ok I have tried everything I know of to get the kernal source onto my computer so i can install the nvidia drivers..

1.I tried yast but it freezes the entire computer when i do the cd drive wont even open sad.gif.
2.Tried smart but it doesnt have the package on it.
3.Tried dling the tar.gz file off the net using the text browser links(got it on their but nvidia say the directory is missing the nvidia.ko file sad.gif )
4.last but not least i tried to google a .rpm file on the net to install it but i cant faind it anywhere sad.gif

Please help I cant even see the login screen all i see is a block X for a cursor and all the solutions to this prob that worked for others havent worked for me sad.gif

[waterhead]

You should be able to get by using the native nv driver, for now.

The kernel sources are available through Smart, you just may need to add the repository to it. In my Smart setup I have two repositories that can provide them, add these to your list of channels:

openSUSE-update http://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/suse/update/10.2

and

SUSE Linux Online Updates ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2/

If you are using a different version than 10.2, these won't work.

[shotgunner 101]

Didnt work I went to install the kernel source and when it got done with 1/4 of it it had the word segmantation fault in the middle of the screen and it said do you want to dislpay all 1345 results [y,n] or something like that and when i went to open yast again it said the kernal source was installed but when i ran nvidia setup it said it was missing . Also after that i couldnt see the commands i was typeing into the command line thing.And even worse was when i try to use the -k $(uname -r) solution that worked for other peaople it doesnt work. Im almost thinking about going back to freaking suse linux 11 or whatever it was atleast then this problem was solvable It seems like all the solutions others have tried fails for me............... and yes the md5 checksum of the iso is right.And yes i burned it at the slowest possible speed

Also note who cares if the old version is unsupported it seems this new version is buggier than the other atleast the other peoples ways of fixing the x server worked.........

Also note if this version cannot be repaired soon(spent 24 hours searching for solutions STRAIGHT!!!!)I will have the obligation to tell everyone to dl suse linux 10.1 who asks me which distro is good.Since so many people seem to have ran into this problem and it not get fixed(only in new version)Also note i will format the linux partition soon if no fix that works is posted

[waterhead]

So which version are you actually using? It is hard to give accurate help without knowing.

[shotgunner 101]

Well I was using opensuse 10.2 but im reverting back to 10.1 becuse its been tried and true to me and 10.2 seems almost as if certain important files are crrupted(even though the md5 is the same) anyways im currently installing 10.2 and will work past the X.org prob it has since the tools i used this time work on 10.1 unlike 10.2 :P

Btw tnx for the advice i will add those 2 to my yast everytime i install linux :P