Hello

I have tried to install the nvidia 3D driver 7 times via yast! Does it just not work?
I downloaded the microsoft fonts via yast and it worked great! I believe this uses the same method? Why is there so many problems with this? When I try to download it, it downloads, it says its downloaded, when I go back into yast to check it, it is ticked and says its downloaded, so then I log out of KDE, log back in, and try to enable 3D via SAX, and guess what that incredibly annoying box pops up "please install nvidia drivers via yast" , has anyone got this feature to work or is it just a fake feature to give people the impression that you can actually get 3D to work with suse? I have seen a few opinions of people saying you are better to install it manualy, but honestly I would rather format my hardrive and install windows 3.1 than do that!!!!

Thanks for any help

do you see the nvidia logo when you startx ??? does your xorg.conf list nvidia as the driver ?? if so then the driver is installed and 3d is enabled even if sax dis -agrees .... also ... installing the drive manually is peanuts, I've been using linux since last april so I'm still green but installing the nvidia driver is very easy

try this from a console:

lsmod |grep nvidia

if you get nothing then (as root):

modprobe nvidia

(did you get a message here?)

it's been a while (maybe about a year) since I've done what you've described (YaST install of nvidia) but i know it can be done.

As emg said if the nvidia splash screen appears when you boot then nvidia driver is working. Don't bother trying to tick that little box, it doesn't work right and if you go back to your original driver it will uninstall the downloaded nvidia driver, then, according to the official line I read somewhere you have to download and install the nvidia driver as "update" and not a fresh install to get it working. There was some other reference I saw somewhere but can't remember.

Of course, installing the driver from the nvidia site is easy enough though as long as you have the kernel source package installed.

No there is no nvidia logo when I start KDE, I looked at the xorg.cof file and it has nv listed as the driver although sax will still not allow me to tick that little box - enbaled 3D, does this mean 3D is enabled anyway?

I tried the update option many times but it still seems the same, it says it installed via yast but sax doesnt seem to agree, you reckon it is installed even although sax doest realise?

If the NVIDIA splash screen comes up then, yeah.

You can also check from the menu:

System->monitor->OpenGL

which should tell you if NVIDIA Corporation driver is being used or from a shell in desktop

glxinfo| grep NVIDIA

and

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status

to see if agp has been enabled

or simply lsmod

edit: just saw you said their is no splash screen

does as root

modprobe nvidia

work or output an error?

sorry to disturb the coversation here a bit but seeing that we are on the topic of nvidia drivers, wanted to ask if it is possible that if the driver is installed and running fine and then you run the ld config command, can that remove the driver?

This should help.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=347891

There are a couple of problems here. Your Nvidia driver is probably installed, but not being used - your driver should be "nvidia" not "nv". Sax2 can fix that but Sax2 cannot detect your monitor thru the nvidia driver so you'll have to set that up manually. Here's how:
Ctrl+Alt+F1 to startup a terminal session
login as root
Type "init 3" (without the quotes in all cases)
Type "sax2 -m 0=nvidia"
Sax will start and correct the driver name but you must now either select your monitor from the provided list or provide the Windows monitor disk that came with your monitor. Then exit Sax2
Type "modprobe nvidia"
Type "startx" and you should briefly see the Nvidia logo
Logout and reboot and you should be good to go.