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Old 04-20-2006, 05:48 AM   #1
tkienzle
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Well I went SuSe...Please help.. :^)


Well I can bearly read this as I type it so sorry to the grammer..

The grafix anr bad very bad does any one know what happened I have went into the config for the display set it to 24bit
I have a new e-GeForce 7300GS installed mabey the drivers need to be downloaded and installed?
Any one got any Ideas?

I looks like very low rez grafix like putting it in 8bit...

I have suse 10.0 on a msi k8n neo3 mobo with a AMD64 sempron 3000+
1g OCZ.

And help would be great thanks...
I have run mandrak before so suse is very new to me...
 
Old 04-20-2006, 08:50 AM   #2
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How is you command-line graphics?

My suggestion:

- switch to command-line (Ctrl+Alt+F1)
- login as root
- type 'init 3' to switch to runlevel 3 (non-graphical)
- run 'yast' -> Software -> Online Update and install the nvidia driver
- run 'sax2' to configure graphics
- type 'startx' to test the settings
- type 'init 5' to switch bach to the graphical mode
(- logout root on console 1)

I am not sure how well the nvidia driver installs on a 64 bit system. Maybe you have to follow the manual procedure, for which you need the kernel sources: http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-...r-HOWTO.html#4
 
Old 04-21-2006, 12:08 PM   #3
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download the driver from nvidia.com and compile it yourself would prob work best, install it from init3, then run 'sax2' and configure it from there. restart X, then log on back in. off you go.
If you cant then get 3d accel post back and we see what we can do XD
 
Old 04-21-2006, 05:14 PM   #4
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ok well I went the first route installed the driver went into x11 changed the line "VESA" to "nvidia".
I changed the resolution and now it looks good but in sax2 it says that the card is a vesa framebuffer graphics?
Should that part say something about nvidia or something.. I'mm going to look at the file and make sure that the line did get changed...
 
Old 04-21-2006, 05:57 PM   #5
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The nvidia driver from SuSE installed fine on my x86_64 box which has an AMD Sempron 2800+.
 
Old 04-23-2006, 08:31 PM   #6
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how do i find out if the nvidia driver is install in yast it says the patch was cool.
In sax2 it only has Vesa Framebuffer Graphics... And options next to it..
 
Old 04-23-2006, 08:46 PM   #7
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Sax2 should say something like card "Nvidia FX5200". After installing the drive, you still need to use Sax2 to select the card and configure the parameters. There are two command line tools available to tell you if 3D is installed. One being 3Ddiag and the other glxgears. Glxgears pops up a window showing the gears turning against each other will the console reports the actual frame rate. Maximizing the gears window will slow things down a bit as will running other applications in the background.
 
Old 04-23-2006, 08:54 PM   #8
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well I tried sax2 -m 0=nvidia and it went crazy and keep giving me err's..
It think it is telling me that my card is not supported..

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