Hello. My name is John, I'm having problems getting my GeForce(4?) MX 4000 to work under SuSE. It's a BFG card - BFG says on its website and on the box it's a "GeForce MX 4000", yet the VGA BIOS claims it's a GeForce4 MX 4000. But in any case - the nVidia drivers just wont work. It worked under Mandrake Linux when 10.1 came out, but I had no luck under Red Hat or SuSE. I updated the drivers with YaST, still no 3D acceleration or support for my card. I probe it and it comes up as a generic VESA. Uplink ran last night just fine, but now refuses to run because it can't load gfx. I looked in my Xconfig file and it has the load "gfx" line (not commented out). I spent $100 on this card a couple months ago and I don't wanna have to buy a new one or go back to my 32MB RIVA TNT2.

Pleeeease help? Thanks

go to nvidia.com, download and install their drivers.
Then, edit the video card driver in the xorg.conf to be 'nvidia'

Alright, I have the .run package - how do I exit the X Windows system and get to a command line?

To go to text mode, edit the /etc/inittab . Change the runlevel to 3 from 5. Then reboot.

Then of course co the installation : # sh NV~.run -q

Then when you do : # sax2 -m 0=nvidia

It gives an error.

I too have a MX 4000 and having the same problem.

If your system can handle a FX 5200 which is a few more bucks more, go for it. Mine can't (Asus A7n266-vm mobo). It is a way way better card than MX 4000. MX 4000 is a very hopeless card ! (Iam using it cos its stable on my sys).

Anyways, try and get me the result soon, else I'am shifting to mdk_10.1. (Yet to download it).

Have you tried be4 executing the sax2 -m 0=nvidia command to just do a modprobe nvidia?
Some say it works then!

Sorry for sounding like a complete n00b, but how do you edit that file when in Terminal?

Use vi
For example to edit file test.tst
do this : vi test.tst
Scroll to wherever you want and when you want to edit something press i (insert) and change anything you need. When finished press esc . To save the file press : and then w (write) and to quit press : and then q (quit). You can also combine commands like :wq (write to file and then quit)
Good luck!

hmmmmmmm strange, it dosen't change the inittab file but it creates a inittab.swp file
I did go into the file doing this

going into terminal as su, then going to the file opening it up with vi
I press i to insert change it to 3, then press esc to get out of insert mode
I then press w and then q but nothing happends, so I press wq again nothing.....

erm.. guys, you may not need to edit the inittab file

just get a console (ctrl+alt+F?) and log in as root
# init 3 (this will close all the GUI/X-related stuff)
just do whatever you need to do in the console
# init 6 (to restart the PC)

I went to init3 and logged in as root and tried to install the driver, it said that I still had a session of X server still running and then aborted the install. So I guess I'm back to editing the file, I tried to do that again but with the same results.......

I have an AMD 2800+ 64bit processor, with an Apollo Bloody Monster card, 128 MB. I downloaded the Nvidia driver, and followed the instructions in Nvidia's readme to install using Yast, ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/sup...staller-HOWTO.

Here is what they say:

1) Kernel sources must be installed and configured. Usually this means
installing the 'kernel-source', 'make' and 'gcc' packages with YaST2.
Update it - if not already done - via YaST2 Online Update (YOU).

2) Use the nvidia installer for 1.0-7167.

modprobe agpgart
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-7167-pkg2.run -q

3) Configure X.Org with

sax2 -m 0=nvidia (0 is a digit, not a letter!)

NOTE: There is no need to try to enable 3D support. It's already
enabled, when the nvidia driver is running.

In step 2, everything failed until the kernel re-build (which is the last thing the installer wanted to do), but it succeeded. After the re-build I went into sax2 and it didn't go very easy either. I had to pic an I/O address.

Anyway, it did go in and the driver works very well. Yast will say that 3D acceleration isn't enabled, but it is.

You could can go directly into xorg.conf and in the device section change "Vesa" or "vga" to Nvidia. I had to do this on a Slack ware installation to get it to work.

It sure can be painful!

Hi all.. i'm a n00b ( ) in the linux os, so sorry if i sound very dummy

Im trying to get the same NVdia card work at my SuSE, downloaded the "driver" (7474) and followed the instructions: make at runlevel 3, run the driver, make the sax2 -m 0=nvidia but here is when the problems begin:

at my first try, the machine freezes at this point... and the X System never load again... on my second try, i run the commands from the first step (from the nvidia howto) this time, sax2 loaded... but very slow, and the X never load...

In my third try, the X loaded (slow) and the KDE was about to start... but it freezed (again), i don't know what to do now...

i skipped one step: the kernel update, it just don't download from the YOU, and i really don't know how to patch or recompile the kernel

if anybody can help me i'd really appreciate it... i don't know even if the file i downloaded from nvidia is the correct one, the file is:NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7676-pkg1.run

my processor is a AMD Duron at 950 MHz

Thanks

i downloaded the file from nvidis and ran it in init 3. but then it goes on to say that it failed to compile the module. im am using a riva tnt2 m64 on suse 10.0
?? any idea y?? i installed the kernel sources and make and gcc.

thanx

The problem you are having is the one I had in SuSE 9.3 before I upgraded to SuSE 10.0. I am not sure, but when you upgrade the Kernel in YOU, the nv driver will not compile. I have not been able to figure this out. THe only solution I came up with was to revert the Kernel back to default prior to installing the NVidia driver. This can be done by entering Yast at the console.
Go to System Update and install the default driver.

I wrote a detailed instruction on how to install the driver: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...26#post1904626

DO NOT edit the XORG.CONF file until you try this first. Manual editing will cause more problems than you currently have considering you are new. IF you do manually edit your conf file BACK IT UP. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

BTW: To those who do not use SuSE and do not know what YaST and SaX are, quit telling people to go into the Xorg.conf file. For a Newbie, that is the wrong thing to try before exhausting all other SuSE tools. In other words if you don't know how SuSE works don't tell others how to mess up their machines! I didn't appreciate it when someone did it to me.

Ok, it seems for me that djwhiplash must be confused on the right direction to go, and I agree with usaf_sp,

I hope you I can clarify a little what you can do:

1. The easiest way to install the Nvidia Graphic Driver in Suse is using YaST (NOTE. Nivida just produce one driver for all its cards), so do the following:
- Go to Systems then YaST, put your root password, then choose to YOU (YaST Online Update) and then choose a mirror (the default is ok), once you are there in the windows of installable patches choose Nvidia Graphic Driver and finally accept.
- Once it has finished the downloading it will install it automatically, so you don't need to do anymore.
- In order to test if you have installed the drivers you can type in a command terminal: glxinfo the first lines will have to look like this:
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
If this is ok, you have installed successfully the Nvidia driver. If that's not the case you could try to do it again. I did it many times and in Suse it always works!

2. If you still have problems, you can do it in the hard way. That is compiling the source code that is the Nvidia-xxxx.run package.
- As you have read is much more complex and I highly suggest you to go this path only after exhausting the first option

Anyway, just be patient and don't loose hope