Hello, Currently using SuSE 7.1 with Matrox Millinum II video card. Will replace it with a Cardexpert TNT2 M64. Need advice to keep me out of a possible linux ditch. - I plain to change inittab to boot into runlevel 3 (non xdm). - Replace the video cards. - Reboot linux, login as root, run Sax2 to setup video card. - Follow instructions from Linux Knowledge Portal on nVidia with SuSE 7.1 to get hardware acceleration. - Reset inittab to runlevel 5 and reboot. Anything else I should be aware of which might help/hurt in this effort. TIA Terry
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 tleck@mindspring.com wrote:
Currently using SuSE 7.1 with Matrox Millinum II video card. Will replace it with a Cardexpert TNT2 M64. Need advice to keep me out of a possible linux ditch.
- I plain to change inittab to boot into runlevel 3 (non xdm). - Replace the video cards. - Reboot linux, login as root, run Sax2 to setup video card. - Follow instructions from Linux Knowledge Portal on nVidia with SuSE 7.1 to get hardware acceleration. - Reset inittab to runlevel 5 and reboot.
Anything else I should be aware of which might help/hurt in this effort.
No, this sounds like a perfect plan to me. In fact you do not have to modify inittab: just press ESC on the grafical LILO boot screen to get back to text mode. Now enter "linux 3", to boot linux in runlevel 3. LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany To be a Californian means to have faults others don't.
Quoting Lenz Grimmer on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 06:24:49PM +0100:
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 tleck@mindspring.com wrote:
Currently using SuSE 7.1 with Matrox Millinum II video card. Will replace it with a Cardexpert TNT2 M64. Need advice to keep me out of a possible linux ditch.
- I plain to change inittab to boot into runlevel 3 (non xdm). - Replace the video cards. - Reboot linux, login as root, run Sax2 to setup video card. - Follow instructions from Linux Knowledge Portal on nVidia with SuSE 7.1 to get hardware acceleration. - Reset inittab to runlevel 5 and reboot.
Anything else I should be aware of which might help/hurt in this effort.
No, this sounds like a perfect plan to me. In fact you do not have to modify inittab: just press ESC on the grafical LILO boot screen to get back to text mode. Now enter "linux 3", to boot linux in runlevel 3.
LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany To be a Californian means to have faults others don't.
Lenz- Whats the differences now between the nv drivers that SuSE ships with and the nvidia drivers I can download from nvidia's website? I have two systems with diamond viper 770d cards in them. I used the 7.1 nv drivers and was pretty happy. I am not terribly demanding but do play some games once in awhile. Just curious. I also have a few Matrox Milleniums (Millenia?) laying around here of the latest type. -- Michael Perry mperry@tsoft.com ------------------
On Sat, Mar 03, Michael Perry wrote:
Whats the differences now between the nv drivers that SuSE ships with and the nvidia drivers I can download from nvidia's website? I have two systems with diamond viper 770d cards in them. I used the 7.1 nv drivers and was pretty happy. I am not terribly demanding but do play some games once in awhile.
The "nv" driver is the (2D only) nVidia driver from XFree86. The "nvidia" driver module is the proprietary nVidia driver, which also supports 3D acceleration (but is not very stable). The one on the nVidia site is a newer version than the one on 7.1. We were not allowed to offer it for download from our site and we could not include it on 7.1 due to ridicolous license terms. But the packages on the nVidia site have been created by us to fit SuSE Linux best. LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany Pretend to spank me - I'm a pseudo-masochist.
LenZ, The packages on the site are suppose to be newer versions then the ones that made it onto 7.1, but if you use them as an update it breaks everything...GLX stops working and X gets very cranky. Is there something that can be done to prevent this..such as new packages being put on ftp.suse.com that update the existing packages? Regards, * LenZ Grimmer (grimmer@suse.de) [010305 01:52]: =>But the packages on the nVidia site have been created by us to fit =>SuSE Linux best. => -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
LenZ,
The packages on the site are suppose to be newer versions then the ones that made it onto 7.1, but if you use them as an update it breaks everything...GLX stops working and X gets very cranky. Is there something that can be done to prevent this..such as new packages being put on ftp.suse.com that update the existing packages?
Regards,
* LenZ Grimmer (grimmer@suse.de) [010305 01:52]:
=>But the packages on the nVidia site have been created by us to fit =>SuSE Linux best. =>
-- Main thing here is that I have not been able to go back to the "nv" drivers after following the directions on the nvidia website for installing the "updates". Mouse behavior when you return to the "nv" drivers is wierd. I have not been able to track that one down but the mouse appears as a small
Quoting Ben Rosenberg on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:52:05AM -0800: pixellated block instead of a arrow. Secondarily, the readme on the nvidia site really does not give directions IF you have installed your own kernel. I found you can still rpm the main NVidia GLX driver in but the module will not work. It complains of missing symbols. What is needed there is to grab the latest tarball kernel module and recompile it. There is some quirkiness with the driver itself. It seems to have some kind of interaction with basic Xscreensaver operation. I had some pretty hefty video corruption when Xscreensaver in daemon mode. Remove xscreensaver from .xinitrc and it goes away completely. My other system did much better. It has a stock suse 2.2.18 kernel on it. The rpms did well and I did not see any problems. I enabled GLx in the XF86Config file and it works fine. Can something be done to update the readme file that is on nvidia's website? -- Michael Perry mperry@tsoft.com ------------------
Hi, I updated rpms from NVidia site ( as per readme ) and things are a lot better now. Don' t have the black screen anymore in console mode ( 2.2.18 + 2.4.0 ) This is what I get on my two PCs with gears : - without nvidia glx PIII 800 + geforce DDR : 167 FPS 2 x PIII 800 + geforce Ultra : 165 FPS - with the command switch2nvidia_glx : PIII 800 + geforce DDR : 1227 FPS 2 x PIII 800 + geforce Ultra : 2175 FPS issued ldconfig and depmod -a System seems more stable now. XF86Config file is +/- same as Ben. Have higher resolution. Well, I feel better now then during the install where my main problem was that modules.conf,- file Cheers, Filip. Le Lundi 5 Mars 2001 18:03, Michael Perry a �crit : Quoting Ben Rosenberg on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:52:05AM -0800:
LenZ,
The packages on the site are suppose to be newer versions then the ones that made it onto 7.1, but if you use them as an update it breaks everything...GLX stops working and X gets very cranky. Is there something that can be done to prevent this..such as new packages being put on ftp.suse.com that update the existing packages?
Regards,
* LenZ Grimmer (grimmer@suse.de) [010305 01:52]:
=>But the packages on the nVidia site have been created by us to fit =>SuSE Linux best. =>
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Main thing here is that I have not been able to go back to the "nv" drivers after following the directions on the nvidia website for installing the "updates". Mouse behavior when you return to the "nv" drivers is wierd. I have not been able to track that one down but the mouse appears as a small pixellated block instead of a arrow. Secondarily, the readme on the nvidia site really does not give directions IF you have installed your own kernel. I found you can still rpm the main NVidia GLX driver in but the module will not work. It complains of missing symbols. What is needed there is to grab the latest tarball kernel module and recompile it. There is some quirkiness with the driver itself. It seems to have some kind of interaction with basic Xscreensaver operation. I had some pretty hefty video corruption when Xscreensaver in daemon mode. Remove xscreensaver from .xinitrc and it goes away completely. My other system did much better. It has a stock suse 2.2.18 kernel on it. The rpms did well and I did not see any problems. I enabled GLx in the XF86Config file and it works fine.
Can something be done to update the readme file that is on nvidia's website?
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:52:05AM -0800, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
The packages on the site are suppose to be newer versions then the ones that made it onto 7.1, but if you use them as an update it breaks everything...GLX stops working and X gets very cranky. Is there something that can be done to prevent this..such as new packages being put on ftp.suse.com that update the existing packages?
I installed the packages on the nVidia site, and have not had any problems. The only thing I have noticed is that those packages do not have RENDER support. - v -- Victor R. Cardona vcardona@home.com "Behold the keyboard of Kahless, the greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!"
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