Howdy All,
As a Suse newbie, allow me to record some partial successes:
Step 1: Acquired Suse 7.3 Pro, plus Athlon XP DDR with MSI GeForce3 Ti200
card, (plus Audigy sound card, but that is still an open issue...).
Do Quick Install : ends abruptly (presumably at first
graphics board probe)
with those lovely, retro, X crosshairs on a Black Screen of Death! (Cold
start required.)
Step 2: Examined and saved xf86 graphics logfile.
Step 3: Do another Quick Install this time in Text Mode. <Need to remember
to custom
the partitions to retain the Reiserfs> . Hand link the xf86.4 X server and
turn the xf86 graphics logfile into a XF86Config.
Step 4: Do startx and find myself in graphics mode. Very nice. But, exit
keystrokes result in ... Black Screen of Death (oops, but as expected).
Step 5: So, modify driver section of XF86Config to
Driver "nv"
Option "NvAgp" "0"
Exit keystrokes ... are normal!
Step 6: Modified to
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NvAgp" "1"
Exit keystrokes ...are normal!
Step 7: Configured modem'd network, YOU'd to download NVIDIA modules,
restarted with newly Nvidia'd startx.
Exit keystrokes ... normal!
Hmmm: Appears that using NVAGP, the NVIDIA driver, works, but AGPGART, the
AGP module that comes with the linux kernel, freezes at exit !??
-Bill "Sticking to Kde at the moment for the Anti-Aliasing" Margolis
