Newbie - Suse 8.1 GeForce2 MX 400

[jkruer01]

Hello,

I have gone to the nVidia website http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_ia32_1.0-4349
and I have read the README file but I still am having problems. I have read several threads on this message board but I still am having problems.

This is what I have figured out so far. I need to go to ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-4349/ and download
1) NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4349.suse81.i586.rpm
2) NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4349.suse81.i586.rpm

but I do not know how to install them.

Can someone tell me how to install them please?

Also, if this is not the correct procedures will someone please tell me what I need to do.

Thank you.

[Lestat]

On a console:

$man rpm (VERY important step)

$rpm -i NVIDIA_kernel-[your_verison_here].rpm
$rpm -i NVIDIA_GLX-[your_verison_here].rpm

I think you can install them with Yast, but i've never used it this far ;)

Good luck though. I installed them and can't get them to work on SuSE 8.1, but i'm thiking it may be a chipset issue.

[jkruer01]

Thanks. I'll give it a try. First, though what does the "$man rpm" command do? Also, why do you put "$" in front of all your commands?

Thanks!

[Lestat]

$ -> your "system prompt" eg. [user@localhost]$

by the way, you should use those comands as root, which changes $ to # ([root@localhost]# )right? ;)

if you don't know what $man rpm means, try

$man man

Good luck!! Oh! another good source of information:

/usr/share/doc/

Bye!