Hello,

I am new to Suse and do not have the best first impression, but I am certain it is ME who has hosed things up. I am losing my hair because I am pulling it out because I cannot get the graphics driver installed.
I installed (dual boot) Vista & Suse 10.2 and things went ok except of course the video driver was not correct.
Very slow and delayed response to mouse tracking.

Suse 10.2
Compaq F762NR Notebook
nForce nVidia onboard video controller

1) I googled my butt off and saw that I could download the nVidia drivers from
download.nvidia.com and did that. I first tried the rpm (rpm -i filename). It said it
successfully installed but it did not make the display behave any different, almost like
the right driver was not loaded.

2) I then got the installer package ***.run and ran that and it said it finished and suggested
I hit the test button to see if it worked before I accepted it. I did, and it did not work.
Then like an idiot, I hit ok anyway and not after booting it comes up in the big black screen single user command line mode.

Can anyone help me get my display back and working correctly before I am completely bald ?

Thank you very much

Did you read this? Tee nvidia linux drivers point SuSe users to it.

http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-...ler-HOWTO.html

Presumably you can substitute 10.2 for 10.2

You need a minimum of three things:
1 The driver installed
2 The driver specified in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
3 The appropriate resolution specified in that same file

"man xorg.conf" will get you all the format and syntax rule--and there are LOTS of threads here.

One option is to run "xorgconfig"

All the above is done in a terminal as root.

Thank you much for the help.

I followed the instructions at

http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA

and it worked the 3rt time. I guess that is why they say 3rd time is a charm.

Thanks again !

Glad to hear you got it working---and thank you for the follow-up.
Amazing how this works....and MORE amazing how so many people miss this step....