Come on!!!! I am the inly one that uses a Nvidia Card here. Out of this entire forum the only one that even tries to hel is someone who stopped using SUSE?
I am sorry for the frustration but it is there. Thank you Slacker for all your help. |
If you did not succed first, then you're a programmer:)
and if really, why SuSE? So many distros to choose from. And why do you think I, personally, stopped using Suse? I would really recommend after so many years of using *nix "Slackware" |
"why SuSE"
I wish I hadn't just paid 80 dollars for this os. That is why right now, but the reason is fading fast :( |
Are you Serious!!!????:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
Here is one best link for you http://distrowatch.com Choose distro, download and use for pleasure |
I though those books it came with would be usefull :(
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Wisdom comes from bumps on the road and on the head;)
Fly with Air Slackware, your best Airline :D :D |
I am sorry for venting. I am just frustrated.
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Take a look at the README file that came with the nVidia drivers, in /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0. Specifically, Appendix D, "X Config Options":
"Option "RenderAccel" "boolean" Enable or disable hardware acceleration of the RENDER extension. THIS OPTION IS EXPERIMENTAL. ENABLE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. There is no correctness test suite for the RENDER extension so NVIDIA can not verify that RENDER acceleration works correctly. Default: hardware acceleration of the RENDER extension is disabled." They also have an example XF86Config with sections for various types of cards there. The video card section of my XF86Config file looks like this: Code:
Section "Device" |
I added the Option "RenderAccel" "1"
Should yast recognize that this has been enabled because it is not |
Yes, YaST should see that 3D acceleration is enabled. Please make sure you are using the "nvidia" driver and not the "nv" driver.
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Yeah, it sounds like you might be using the nv driver. Are you sure you installed the NVIDIA driver, because if memory serves me correctly it enables 3D by default when it's installed.
If you're not sure try this. (KDE start menu) Find (system) on that menu (expand system) Find (yast) (click on yast) (enter your root password) (select software) (select online update) you should just be able to (click next) :this step might take a second: scroll down the list and you should see that the update list is black and is marked optional (check nvidia driver) not exact name, you'll know it when you see it select (accept) sit back and wait for the download after it downloads restart x or restart your computer it doesn't matter you should see an nvidia splash screen before your window manager loads, if not come back to the forum. if you do see the screen you should be able to go into SaX2 and change your resolution. Sorry if this is sloppy I'm tired. Good luck buddy. |
I have been following this thread off and on for the last few days and I think you were mislead by SlackerLX from the beginning. Editing your /etc/X11/XF86Config (or xorg.conf) may be the way you would tackle this problem in Slackware, but it's not the way I have had success with SUSE. I'm assuming that SUSE has recognized your new GeForce card.
First, download the latest nvidia driver from here to your home directory. Then exit the gui by typing ctrl > alt > F1. This should take you to a text screen asking you to log in as user. Do so. Then log in as root and type init 3. You may have to press enter again to get back your prompt. Type sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run -q Follow the nvidia installer through the steps. It will have to build a module for your kernel. Don't worry about the riva module warning. When the installer is through, type sax2 -m 0=nvidia (0 is a digit, not a letter!) You'll probably need to undo any other edits you did to /etc/X11/XF86Config. Save this file and log back in as regular user. Type startx. The NVIDIA HOWTO for this is available at the suse/novell website and there are many threads on this forum about it. Edit: 1) Kernel sources must be installed and configured. Usually this means installing the 'kernel-source', 'make' and 'gcc' packages with YaST2. Update it - if not already done - via YaST2 Online Update (YOU). HTH |
Don't try to manually install the driver unless you really need to. You shouldn't have to edit your xorg at all unless you install it manually. Follow my Yast directions above. Hopefully your xorg is still working properly.
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i tried typing over the nv with nvidia, but that just lost my gui (is that the x-server?)
Also Sabicas, I did try with yast first but it never changed anything. When I open the Device Hardware Manager it shows to devices under Display. It shows nVidia 0x0322 and under that it shows Trigem i845) I have disabled the onboard video on the bios and window no longer finds it. Actually for what it is worth I have not been to windows now for 2 days. (A new record for me) Is it possible that SUSE is dectecting the onboard vidio card and that is the problem, or is Trigem the generic video driver that Linux uses in the begining - I asume it has to use some kind of driver since for whatever legal readons exist it can't use the Nvidia driver during installtion or until I later download it via YAST? |
I don't know if this log helps?
/************* SaX2 log : SaX2 version 4.8 - CVS Release: 1.49 2003/03/17 ************** CVS BUILD : 26443 : DESCRIPTION : X11 configuration log file to collect information : about detection, startup and configuration. : There are three parts of logging: : --- : 1) INIT ( detection, 3D ) : 2) STARTUP ( XF86Config, X11 log, glxinfo ) : 3) CONFIG ( config actions ) : --- : VERSION : SaX2 compiled for: [SuSE Linux 9.2 (i586)] PARAMETER : -m 0=nvidia : LOG DATE : Sat Jan 1 00:54:10 CST 2005 *************/ ============================ Framebuffer Info: ---------------------------- mode "1280x1024-77" # D: 131.096 MHz, H: 80.328 kHz, V: 76.649 Hz geometry 1280 1024 1280 1024 16 timings 7628 160 32 16 4 160 4 rgba 5/11,6/5,5/0,0/0 endmode Frame buffer device information: Name : VESA VGA Address : 0xe0000000 Size : 10485760 Type : PACKED PIXELS Visual : TRUECOLOR XPanStep : 0 YPanStep : 0 YWrapStep : 0 LineLength : 2560 Accelerator : No 01-Jan 00:54:11 <I> Initializing... 01-Jan 00:54:14 <I> [ Sysp: Mouse detection data Mouse0 => Protocol : explorerps/2 Mouse0 => Device : /dev/input/mice Mouse0 => Buttons : 5 Mouse0 => Wheel : 1 Mouse0 => Emulate : 0 Mouse0 => Name : Logitech Optical Mouse ] 01-Jan 00:54:14 <I> [ Sysp: Keyboard detection data Keyboard0 => XkbModel : pc104 Keyboard0 => XkbLayout : us ] 01-Jan 00:54:37 <I> [ Sysp: Server detection data Card0 => BusId : 0x2 Card0 => SlotId : 0x09 Card0 => FuncId : 0x0 Card0 => Vendor : NVidia Card0 => Device : 0x0322 Card0 => VID : 0x10de Card0 => DID : 0x0322 Card0 => Module : nv Card0 => BusType : AGP Card0 => Detected : 2 Card0 => Flag : DEFAULT Card0 => SUB-VID : 0x0000 Card0 => SUB-DID : 0x0000 Card1 => BusId : 0x0 Card1 => SlotId : 0x02 Card1 => FuncId : 0x0 Card1 => Vendor : Intel Card1 => Device : i845 Card1 => VID : 0x8086 Card1 => DID : 0x2562 Card1 => Module : nvidia Card1 => BusType : PCI Card1 => Detected : 2 Card1 => Flag : DEFAULT Card1 => SUB-VID : 0x109f Card1 => SUB-DID : 0x3186 ] 01-Jan 00:54:38 <I> [ Sysp: XStuff detection data SaX: ups lost card during probing... abort ] |
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