Am Wed, 5 Aug 2009 02:15:42 +0930
schrieb Rodney Baker
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 23:54:10 Peter Ragosch wrote:
Am Sun, 2 Aug 2009 11:55:17 -0300
schrieb "Marcelo Magno T. Sales"
: People,
I had an nvidia GeForce 8400 that worked perfectly in this opensuse 11.1 box. However, the video card failed and was replaced by an GeForce 9400 GT, which seems not to work with opensuse 11.1's X server (?!). sax2 detects the new card as VESA Framebuffer and gives me 1280x1024 resolution only (should be 1680x1050) and veeeeery slow graphics. If I force it to generate a xorg.conf file which loads the appropriate driver ("sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia" or "sax2 -r -m 0=nv"), X aborts while loading. The "nvidia" driver was installed from nvidia's opensuse repository (http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.1). I have installed Fedora 11 in this machine to test the card and it works perfectly well with Fedora, but I'd rather stay with opensuse. Is there a way to make this card work with opensuse? I have the following packages installed: kernel-pae-2.6.27.25-0.1.1 kernel-pae-base-2.6.27.25-0.1.1 kernel-pae-extra-2.6.27.25-0.1.1 xorg-x11-7.4-8.19.1 xorg-x11-server-7.4-17.6.1 xorg-x11-driver-video-7.4-19.8.2 nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-pae-185.18.14_2.6.27.23_0.1-2.2
Thanks,
Marcelo
I'm missing the x11-video-nvidiaG02 library in your rpm list (this is the driver in fact).
Peter
Peter, Go to the NVidia web site and download the latest driver version 185.18.29. Open a command line where you downloaded it to and type sh <installer file.run>.
Make sure that you have the kernel source for your running kernel installed (as well as gcc + the usual dev stuff) and that you have at least prepped the sources by running make oldconfig && make prepare on the kernel sources.
The nvidia installer will then compile the new kernel modules and driver and complete the installationl.
The only drawback to doing it this way is that everytime you update the kernel you'll have to go back to the installer and run sh
-K to rebuild the kernel module. Installing from the nvidia repository avoids this but you have to be sure that the version you're installing matches exactly your running kernel. Regards, Rodney.
PS I have the 9400GT running perfectly under factory (11.2/KDE4.3RC4).
Hi Rodney, thanks for your explanation and you are right about the drawback. In contrast to Marcelos configuration the default kernel and GeForce 8600 GTS is up and running on my machine. But nevertheless in his list of installed packages the x11-video-nvidiaG02 library package is absent - compared to my installation. (May be slipped or really missing.) Some time ago as I upgraded to 11.1 I had trouble to get the NVIDIA card to work because exactly this package wasn't installed. Sorry if my answer to Marcelos mail wasn't clear enough. Kind regards Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org