Problems During the Download or Installation of NVIDIA Drivers

Support knowledgebase (wessels_nvidiaftp)
Applies to

SuSE Linux: Version 7.3

Symptom

You want to install the original 3D NVIDIA driver instead of the dummy driver. However, the download with YaST Online Update (YOU) takes too long or cannot be completed. For example, the manual installation of the driver aborts with the error message:


linux:/tmp # rpm -Uvh NVIDIA_*.rpm
error: NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.suse81.i586.rpm cannot be installed
NVIDIA_kernel               #########################################

Cause

The NVIDIA servers have a low availability.

Solution

Verify the md5 check sum of the packages downloaded from the NVIDIA FTP by way of the command


md5sum PACKAGE_NAME

If the output differs from the information available at NVIDIA's download page, the download of the package is very likely to have failed.

In this case, download the package from NVIDIA's home page again:

http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

The check sums of the drivers 1.0-3123 are:

linux:/tmp # md5sum NVIDIA_*
78d60cf49a2a0a093eb8bf632cd68d4e  NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-3123.suse81.i586
8c0e60e3b3772cf6b7af3ffba1d4fc7c  NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-3123.suse81.i586

Consult the README during the driver installation. It is available at the download page or, once the packages have been installed, under:


/usr/share/doc/packages/nv_glx/README

Keywords: FTP, NVIDIA, X11, GEFORCE2GTSMX, UPDATE, DRIVER, INSTALLATION

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