[SOLVED] Nvidia Driver Problem

[FlameOfTheVoid]

I went through Nvidia's website and used the "1 click install" option for the driver. There was en error while downloading that was a bunch of jibberish (full of foreign characters and random letters) and had a Yes/No option. Clicked YES and ask for the location of something which i did not understand so I clicked NO. After it finished it said it was only partially installed because it was missing dependancies but I told it to install anyway. After a reboot, the xServer wont start so now im stuck with command line (which i know nothing about). What do I need to do?

[devils casper]

Boot up in Command Line Mode ( highlight SuSe title in GRUB Menu and press 3 and hit Enter key. SuSe will boot up in Command Line mode and drop at login prompt. Log in as Regular User and execute this

su -
sax2
exit
startx

If everything works fine, reboot machine.

su -
shutdown -r now

[FlameOfTheVoid]

Eveything seemed to work fine untill I rebooted and I still have the same problem. The first error screen after the reboot sayd that the XServer isn't configured correctly. I still have my install disc, is there any kind of a rescue I can do?

[techieMoe]

I went through Nvidia's website and used the "1 click install" option for the driver.

You're not the first person to have issues with that 1 click install lately. I'd recommend trying to install it the "not so easy way":

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...d-drivers.html

[FlameOfTheVoid]

I think I'm starting to get in over my head for my experiance level. Apparently I don't have 'make' and 'gcc' installed. I thik this may have had something to do with the way I installed the OS. I didn't install a lot of packages that I probably should have so I am just going to do a reinstall of the OS. Hopefully, that will fix the immediate video issue and also install the proper packages so I can install the correct video drivers.

[FlameOfTheVoid]

I reinstalled the OS but the make and gcc packages are not installed and I cannot find them in the respositories. Are they on the Add-On cd? Or where can I find them?

[techieMoe]

I reinstalled the OS but the make and gcc packages are not installed and I cannot find them in the respositories. Are they on the Add-On cd? Or where can I find them?

Are you searching for them in YaST Add/Remove? I'm surprised you can't find gcc. It's the backbone of the entire Linux operating system. You're sure make and gcc aren't already installed? What version of SuSE are you using?

[FlameOfTheVoid]

I am using Suse 10.3. I am very new to the Linux OS, maybe I'm not looking in the right place. I did look in YaST Software Management and did a search for make and didn't find it. Could it be called something different in 10.3? I know make is not installed because when I type 'make' in terminal it says that it is an unknown command.

[FlameOfTheVoid]

Looks like I missed some important information when I was using the "1 click install". Apparently I needed to run YaST Online Update before I installed the driver, otherwise there are dependancy issues. Most likely the problem there. I will try when I have an Internet connection available for the Suse machine.

[Jonathan183]

Try to use Yast to do the install when you can.
You should be able to install gcc from yast->system->software management
and either search for gcc or you can find it in the development package group. You will find make in the same package group.