geforce 6800 not listed in sax2
 

Hi. It looks like lots of people are having trouble with the 6800. I have tried everything I have found on every website I can find and still no luck but I am only a noob to linux

Ive got Suse 9.1 Pro and everything is up to date and patched.
Had a problem with the rivafb bit in kernel but fixed that and the module loads by using modprobe and shows up when i do lsmod as first item. I dont get any error messages or anything and I have tried both the 6106 and 6629 drivers from nVidia website and didnt get any error messages after I recompiled the kernel to get rid of the rivafb problem.
Trouble is I just dont get the option to pick the 6800 in sax2.

Kernel 2.6.5-7.111.30

/sbin/lspci:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 80)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
0000:00:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8800 (rev 05)
0000:00:0a.1 Multimedia controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8811 (rev 05)
0000:00:0b.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 02)
0000:00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04)
0000:00:0c.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port (rev 04)
0000:00:0c.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)
0000:00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3149 (rev 80)
0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT8233/A/C/VT8235 PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 81)
0000:00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3227
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0045 (rev a1)

It worked perfectly in WinXp and the Vesa Frambuffer driver seems to work ok but I wanna get it sorted.

Its an AGP card, via chipset and Athlon XP 2400+ 32bit.
Any help much appreciated.

i also read in another post that the ehci_hcd or something module was causing a problem and tried removing that but that didnt make any difference either

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=38066

The 6600GT doesn't work I think (*not yet* that is). This might apply to the 6800 also, I am not sure.

What is the error message that pops up when you try to install the driver? Usually Xserver fails to load if you have some type of driver/configuration conflict.

there is no error. it installs fine and the nvidia logo comes up with no problems when the x server starts it just doesnt give me the option to choose the 6800 in sax2

Hmm, yes, that one is beyond me. I really hate it when there is no errors and something doesn't work.

Unfortunately, I don't have enough experience with Sax2 to even begin to help you. :(

no worries thanks for trying though. Atleast if it gave me an error I would know where to start but as Im only new I got no chance really.
All the how to's that Ive read all just say that the last step is just to configure in sax2 but I cant see how to configure. It lists most other cards (doesnt list the 6600 series either) and there isnt even a nvidia generic one to use. The latest set of drivers from the nvidia website say they support both the 6600 and 6800 but I have tried the latedt and also the first ones that say they support the 6800.