Rant mode : ON. I have to tell you, after purchasing Suse 7.0 I'm a little annoyed. I paid $69.99 for it, $39.99 for Suse 6.4, $29.99 for 6.3, 6.2 and 6.1. $34.99 for 6.0 That's $234.90 and change... and I still can't get a working X terminal. My Geforce wouldn't work, the Geforce 2 card won't work. It took 5 revisions of Suse Linux to get my sound card working properly. Part of the reason for this trouble is that I'm new to Linux and learning. Still, having learned enough to realize I wasn't entirely to blame, I contacted the Suse support team. They told me it's an nVidia problem who tells me it's an Suse problem. Meanwhile, I paid $250 for Microsoft Windows 2000, my sound card worked right away, the video card works flawlessly, and I can boot quickly into Quake 3 Arena. Alright, you're right ... I can hear the cries. Linux isn't the evil Borg that Microsoft is, making zombies of the masses. I know that. And I did pay $15.00 more for Microsoft Windows 2000. But one year later I still can't get Linux to boot into X/KDE and play Quake 3. Rant mode : OFF. I do love Linux, and yearn for the day I can just format my Windows 2000 partition. But I fear it won't be any time soon. -----Original Message----- From: dids [mailto:richard@diddyland.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 4:48 p.m. To: Suse-Linux-E Subject: RE: [SLE] Suse 7.0 with Geforce2 GTS nvidia 0.95 this combination of suse and geforce2 is just a huge nightmare, I find it quite upsetting that there is so little feedback on the subject. Im sposed to be taking linux up to my brothers pc dealership to show them they should be selling it. yeah right i cant even get it out of 640x480 on my own system. Used to have a fine and dandy setup. but now i have a geforce2mx. ( a mainstream card ). i believe u can get the geforce2 to work if you hit on a random sequence. but advice is pretty thin on the ground just my rant dids -----Original Message----- From: Sean McGrath [mailto:seanmcgrath@flashcom.net] Sent: 27 September 2000 18:51 To: Suse (E-mail) Subject: [SLE] Suse 7.0 with Geforce2 GTS nvidia 0.95 I have a Dell Precision 420 with duel P3 933 and 512megs of RDRAM, Hercules Prophet 2 Geforce2 GTS (64 meg card). Using Suse 7.0 hot off the presses, XF86 4.0.1 and the 0.9.5 nvidia driver. Have installed the nvidia kernel and GLX module, but when I startx I get 'Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Aborting...' This is under the standard uniprocessor kernel that comes with Suse 7. I tried compiling a new kernel for SMP, but then I get a nvidia kernel error stating that the nvidia driver is compiled for a uniprocessor system (doh!) Any advice here? I am unable to use X at all unless I use the framebuffer device (ugh!) \\\|/// \\ - - // ( @ @ ) ----o00o-(_)-o00o------------------------------------- Sean McGrath, RN, BSN, CCRN E-mail : seanmcgrath@flashcom.net ICQ : 7466420 ".....Nurses heal the World....." -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq