Archive for tag: openSUSE

Installing proprietary NVIDIA Driver in openSUSE 11.3

18 July, 2010 (06:30) | Linux, [English Posts] | By: Wolfgang

First of all, if you don't want to install the driver manually, search the openSUSE repositories for it, perhaps it is available by now, as of writing this (2010-07-18) it wasn't.

If you decide to do it manually, here is how it worked for me:

Download driver from http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index5.aspx. The downloaded file is named something like ...

OpenSUSE 11.3 VNC Server Screen Keeps Black

17 July, 2010 (06:30) | Linux, [English Posts] | By: Wolfgang

I tried to enabled the default VNC server in openSUSE via YaST - Network Services - Remote Administration (VNC), but whenever I connected to the host via the OS X VNC Client JollyFastVNC, all I got was a black screen.

I double checked firewall and VNC server settings but everything seemed to be configured correctly. ...