I am trying to get 3D from my 6600GT with no luck.

I downloaded and compiled the newest driver from nvidia (sh NVIDA ... ).Everithing goes well.

If I try sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia the sceen goes black and freez ;(

After resatart I am back to nv


Any idea for an enthusiastic newbie ...

how did you install this drive exactly?

ususally when you download the nvidia driver it alters your xorg.conf file automagically....

The BEST way to install the nvidia driver in suse is to use YAST.

That being said, compiling the driver from source (which is what i think you did) should work as well, but if you read the release notes for SUSE 10.0 you will see that some nvidia 6xxx series cards have issues with Suse. I'm not sure if its issues with the generic driver that comes with Suse or the accelerated Nvidia driver.

I've had fresh installs of Suse 10.0 lockup on nvidia cards until i went into the video settings and disabled "shadowFB" <-- It's been a while and i'm not sure what exact steps are required to do this.?

anyway hope I could be of help...

Note: Suse is a GREAT OS but, with YaST, Sax, Sax2...etc. everything is GUI driven !! It really can be a pain in the ass,.... so I tried Slackware and haven't looked back !!!

Later

I don't know anything about sax/yast, but you can just edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf (as root, of course) and change

to

Provided the driver installed OK, which you say it did, that should be all you need to do.

First of all, thanks for the ideas....

The nv driver works well, but no 3D.

I tired yast online update first but it does not altered my /etc/X11/xorg.conf so nothing changed.

If I change to nvidia, my system freezes when I restarts the gui ... ;(

After it I downloaded the driver source and I fallowed the steps in the nvidia install docs.

shutdown the gui, init 3, sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8756-pkg1.run -g
It sais the driver compiled succesfully. use sax th install

if I execute
sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia
as root from console with no gui then my system freezes

if I start the gui and then
sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia
then I have the test button from yast but whe I press it my system freezes

;(

That's why you need the binary driver.

Hmm, have a look in /var/log/XFree86.0.log (well, that's where it is on Slackware, Suse might be set up differently, but it should be somewhere around there). This, as you can probably tell, is the log file X writes to when it starts. There might be something in there which indicates what the problem is.

If you have no luck, you could try an older version of the driver, this one might have a bug or something. I just installed 8756 on an old(ish) box w/ onboard GF4MX, and it works OK but the graphics were glitchy. I went back to 76XX and, though it didn't lock up, I got a blank screen. I fiddled with the HSync in xorg.conf (reduced it by a couple of KHz) and then it started OK, graphics were better too.

The drivers aren't perfect (far from it), so it might be worth trying a couple of different versions to see which works best for you. It's a pain, but with closed-source drivers, what can you do....

I checked the log file and I found two intresting thinks

1.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X
(EE) NVIDIA(0): log file that the GLX module has been loaded in your X
(EE) NVIDIA(0): server, and that the module is the NVIDIA GLX module. If
(EE) NVIDIA(0): you continue to encounter problems, Please try
(EE) NVIDIA(0): reinstalling the NVIDIA driver.

2. This one is horrible for me
(II) NVIDIA(0): Bus detected as PCI Express
(II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X

I have an AGP card. So what is this?

try downloading several of the drivers from nvidia's web page and trying each of them. I found that depending on what kernel version, or x version you've got, these newer nvidia drivers are not very flexible. I had to do the same thing on a recent install, and I think nvidia's official drivers are fine if the yast ones aren't working out.

I tried several driver.

If it's old then my card is not supported ;(
If it's supported then black screen.

Some folks sais there is a compatibility issue with my Inno3D ....

Check that you have following in xorg.conf:

Module "GLX"
#Module "DRI"

So, disable DRI and enable GLX.

Hope this helps.

I found that I had to use a sort of old nvidia driver. I also had to downgrade to an older version of xorg. I also had to downgrade to an older kernel.

Like I said, it was a REAL pain in the a** figuring out that combination, because I had to try all sorts of combinations before it finally worked. I _knew_ that it could somehow work, because I had previously installed SUSE linux on that system and had 3D-accel and everything working. I believe that my card was a 6600 as well, I've got that laptop at my parents house now, otherwise I would tell you what combination worked.

I'm not try to cop out and give you one of those annoying, "use this software instead", but seriously, if you are going to try all of these different combinations, and if you are going to be installing and reinstalling, I recommend using another distro like gentoo, where it'll be easy or you to install and un-install whatever package you want, and specifically the number of that package.

If you can wait a day or two, I can get that combination for you.

I dont really get it (Dont forget I am a newbie)

My moudule section in xorg.conf

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "type1"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "freetype"
Load "v4l"
EndSection

Thanks fatblueduck. I am working on this for 2 weeks so i can wait a few day