Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3378 mails)

[Tor Sigurdsson <tosi@xxxxxxxx>]

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John (mánudagur 15. apríl 2002 23:22)
> Recently moved to a new P-4 machine with a nVidia Geforce3 Ti-200
> graphics card. Decided to just do a backup of my /home directory and
> do a new install of  7.3 on a larger hard drive. After the new install
> updated with Sax online,  installed the nVidia and other files needed
> from Suse update.
>
> The problems are if I change anything in the Sax2 config test screen
> my mouse is lost, have no mouse pointer at all. Started another
> install from scratch left things the way they were, lived with the
> monitor slightly off center. Open some programs lose resolution to
> some ugly mess. Obviously I'm way of course here and how to install
> this card. Question, are the Suse updates for Nvidia the same ones
> that are on the MSI/nVidia site.  Do I need files from each site or
> are they the same? Does Xfree86 in suse 7.3 work with this card? I
> have nothing installed right now on the linux drive. Going to try
> again, was looking for the procedure to follow to get graphics card
> working in 7.3. Funny during the main install of Suse 7.3 the screen
> is full width looks great no mouse problems, get by the install and
> things go down hill.
>
> Thanks..............John

Hi,

The drivers that come with SuSE 7.3 are the 'free' drivers. No OpenGL et al.

The drivers from the nVidia site are the ones you would want. NVIDIA_KERNEL 
for Suse7.3 and NVIDIA_GLX for same.

Unfortunately, my experience with MSI cards is not good. The drivers are 
crash-prone when used with MSI Geforce2Pro, so I really can't help much with
MSI specific issues. Otoh. I use the same drivers with a Toshiba GeForce2Go,
and have no problems. Your mileage may vary.

Get the drivers, install them with "rpm -Uhv --nodeps --force", and if the 
links in /usr/lib ( /usr/lib/libGL* ) don't point to the nvidia glx 
sharedlibs, then run switch2nvidia_glx. Make sure again that the libs aren't
pointing to some mesa lib...

Did you install the latest SaX2 patches ? No ? Do so. You want to :-)

Run SaX2. Don't let it tell you what to do. Select your mouse ( you may have
to use the cursor keys if it manages to screw the mouse ). Do so, and select
everything up to the graphics card.

When you are at the graphics card, select the card, and choose 'properties'.

You want the 'nvidia' driver, not the 'nv' driver.

Also you may want glx. ( found under 3d )

'dri' does not work on nvidia cards.

Make sure you don't just select a monitor. Make quite sure it's frequencies 
are correct. You'll find it's min/max frequencies in its manual.

When SaX2 is done, save. JUST SAVE. Do NOT let SaX2 start a test X server.

SaX2 somehow manages *sometimes* to trash the XF86config file if it's not all 
right.

copy the /etc/X11/XF86config file. Copy it to your home directory. Be safe.

do 'startx mwm'

if you see a gray background, a "X" and a pale-blue menu when the left 
mouse-button is pressed, you successfully started the mwm windowmanager. ( 
any windowmanager does ok for testing purposes. mwm or twm are the lightest
ones )

ctrl-alt-backspace kills the wm.

Now you can continue as normal :)

'gears' ( while in a wm/xterm ) gives you the glx throughput.

If gears don't run, the libs are still wrong. Check them again.

- -tosi

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