GeForce FX 5500

tuxlover68 · 05-02-2006, 03:41 PM

Hey

I recently bought a GeForce FX 5500 for my pc, sadly it's only a PCI, I have no AGP. As of yet I haven't been able to get it to work.
I'm running SUSE 10 and when the card is in it recognises it and the drivers are there but the pc will not use the card to VGA output.
I know this is probably the wrong place but then again you guys are ht ebest people I could think of. If you do give help could you post as simply as possible as I'm a little dimm at times.

Thanks in advance

macemoneta · 05-02-2006, 03:44 PM

Have you installed the proprietary Nvidia driver?

tuxlover68 · 05-02-2006, 03:54 PM

Well, I didn't think that I needed to. I probed my hardware in YaST and it gave me all the model numbers and alsorts and it said that it had a driver. In SuSE wouldn't I have to re-compile every time I did a Kernel update?

macemoneta · 05-02-2006, 04:07 PM

The open source driver works, but does not provide 3D acceleration or use of the VGA or TV-out ports.

I suggest that you download and install the 7676 driver (the current 8xxx series is still unstable) from Nvidia.

Yes, you will have to rerun the installer each time the kernel is upgraded; that's the downside of using undocumented proprietary hardware.

tuxlover68 · 05-02-2006, 04:11 PM

Good Point. But when I tried to download the driver from NVidia all I got was a random text page.

macemoneta · 05-02-2006, 04:15 PM

Right click on the link, and select "Save As":

http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/L...-7676-pkg1.run

tuxlover68 · 05-02-2006, 04:23 PM

Wow, you can't tell I'm a newbie... lol. Thanks for all the help and I'm sorry for being a little slow and dimm lol.