Quoting Steven T. Hatton on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:16:32AM -0500:

On Saturday 03 March 2001 01:00, Jonathan Drwes wrote:

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I have a Diamond Viper 770dD (nVIDIA) grafiks card, 32 MB. I am wondering if the reason it will not work properly is that the settings in the BIOS are wrong. This is a DELL computer that origanally came with Red Hat factory installed. The BIOS settings are:

Palette Snooping [Disabled]

AGP Aperture Size [64 MB]

Default Primary Video Adapter [AGP]

The Red Hat installation had terrible screen rendering so I switched to SuSE. Now I want the card to work in 3D. It worked in SuSE 7.0. In both 7.0 and 7.1 I used Sax2 -f to configure.the card. Any help would be appreciated. Johnathan,

There's been some discussion of this on the list. You may find the answer if you search the archives. There's also some information on portal.suse.com on that line of devices. it you've already been down that road, then I apologize for pointing you back to where you've been.

HTH,

Steve

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I've been using the Diamond Viper 770d for a bit now on two systems. I originally used the x driver but tonite switched to the driver on nvidia's website. If you are installing the two rpms which nvidia provides, one of them loads a kernel driver called NVdriver which wants to find a default suse kernel. I downloaded the tarball kernel archive and recompiled it since the second system has my own kernel on it. It compiled fine and installed itself. All I did was rpm -ivh name.of.rpm --nodeps --force (!) from the advice on the website. I don't normally do this since I have been stung with rpm packages before. IN this instance, all it did on the system with the suse default kernel was install its NVdriver kernel module. Then following the instructions on the website, I change the default graphics module from "nv" to "nvidia". That was all it took. Here is that portion of my XF86Config file: Section "Device" Identifier "Diamond Viper 770" Driver "nvidia" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This used to say: Driver "nv" That was about it. So is it better? Well, I like these cards a lot. Things have gotten better with them I think. The current drivers seem pretty good. YOu can switch back to the old drivers by simply substituting "nv" instead of "nvidia". I had some minor mouse issues doing this though. On the other system with my kernel, the kernel module compiled clean and installed itself. -- Michael Perry mperry@tsoft.com ------------------