[opensuse] New user to Opensuse - is 8600GT supported by v10.3?
Hi everybody,
I was an user of Ubuntu (yes, was!). After using opensuse 10.3 BETA for
few days I've decided to shift to Opensuse. It's simply brilliant and
too professional.
I'm from India. And right now (23:00 IST), I've started downloading the
iso-image for Gnome CD. It'll take some time to complete, approx 7-8 hrs
(the whole night, Internet is too slow here and fat bandwidth costs much
- but that's a different story).
All I want to know, that I've Geforce 8600GT graphics card. In BETA CD,
it was detected properly but I couldn't use 3D acceleration. Can anybody
tell me how to get 3D acceleration? Any link to online help/wikis etc
will do.
thanks in advance,
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arijit sarkar
2007/10/4, arijit sarkar
Hi everybody,
I was an user of Ubuntu (yes, was!). After using opensuse 10.3 BETA for few days I've decided to shift to Opensuse. It's simply brilliant and too professional. I'm from India. And right now (23:00 IST), I've started downloading the iso-image for Gnome CD. It'll take some time to complete, approx 7-8 hrs (the whole night, Internet is too slow here and fat bandwidth costs much - but that's a different story).
All I want to know, that I've Geforce 8600GT graphics card. In BETA CD, it was detected properly but I couldn't use 3D acceleration. Can anybody tell me how to get 3D acceleration? Any link to online help/wikis etc will do.
I don't know with the nv drivers, but surely you'll get 3D acceleration with the proprietary nvidia drivers. Although you will need to download the kernel sources (about 200MB) Best regards and welcome to openSUSE :D -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
There are repositories that have rpms for Yast to update to the binary drivers... You just have to add the source, and update. B-) On Thursday 04 October 2007 1:32 pm, Gabriel . wrote:
2007/10/4, arijit sarkar
: Hi everybody,
I was an user of Ubuntu (yes, was!). After using opensuse 10.3 BETA for few days I've decided to shift to Opensuse. It's simply brilliant and too professional. I'm from India. And right now (23:00 IST), I've started downloading the iso-image for Gnome CD. It'll take some time to complete, approx 7-8 hrs (the whole night, Internet is too slow here and fat bandwidth costs much - but that's a different story).
All I want to know, that I've Geforce 8600GT graphics card. In BETA CD, it was detected properly but I couldn't use 3D acceleration. Can anybody tell me how to get 3D acceleration? Any link to online help/wikis etc will do.
I don't know with the nv drivers, but surely you'll get 3D acceleration with the proprietary nvidia drivers. Although you will need to download the kernel sources (about 200MB)
Best regards and welcome to openSUSE :D -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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tor, 04.10.2007 kl. 23.45 +0530, skrev arijit sarkar: snip
All I want to know, that I've Geforce 8600GT graphics card. In BETA CD, it was detected properly but I couldn't use 3D acceleration. Can anybody tell me how to get 3D acceleration? Any link to online help/wikis etc will do.
thanks in advance,
-- arijit sarkar
Kolkata, India
http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA Bjørn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I also have an 8600GT, I read somewhere in the past, that you need to use the drivers from the nvidia web site. So I downloaded them and ran through the installation process. Everything seems to work fine but I really couldn't make the 3D Desktop options to be enabled. I am running gnome and when I try to enable the options (3d desktop) it says that my card doesn't seem to support 3d and it tries to run Sax2. arijit sarkar wrote:
Hi everybody,
I was an user of Ubuntu (yes, was!). After using opensuse 10.3 BETA for few days I've decided to shift to Opensuse. It's simply brilliant and too professional. I'm from India. And right now (23:00 IST), I've started downloading the iso-image for Gnome CD. It'll take some time to complete, approx 7-8 hrs (the whole night, Internet is too slow here and fat bandwidth costs much - but that's a different story).
All I want to know, that I've Geforce 8600GT graphics card. In BETA CD, it was detected properly but I couldn't use 3D acceleration. Can anybody tell me how to get 3D acceleration? Any link to online help/wikis etc will do.
thanks in advance,
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On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 07:12 +0800, Andrés Cosa wrote:
I also have an 8600GT, I read somewhere in the past, that you need to use the drivers from the nvidia web site. So I downloaded them and ran through the installation process. Everything seems to work fine but I really couldn't make the 3D Desktop options to be enabled. I am running gnome and when I try to enable the options (3d desktop) it says that my card doesn't seem to support 3d and it tries to run Sax2.
Yes, I am getting the same error when I'm trying to run Sax2. Any idea
how to overcome this?
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arijit sarkar
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On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 07:12 +0800, Andrés Cosa wrote:
I also have an 8600GT, I read somewhere in the past, that you need to use the drivers from the nvidia web site. So I downloaded them and ran through the installation process. Everything seems to work fine but I really couldn't make the 3D Desktop options to be enabled. I am running gnome and when I try to enable the options (3d desktop) it says that my card doesn't seem to support 3d and it tries to run Sax2.
Yes, I am getting the same error when I'm trying to run Sax2. Any idea how to overcome this?
you went through the nvidia binary driver install process as root, and actually installed the driver, rebooted, and no 3d? try sax2 -r logout and login, open sax2 again and the 3d box should be checked, if not something went wrong with the binary install i guess, repeat. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHBbJeTGPZswu6yiERAplhAKDJ5DlwFREIn6zebffjs8+YYEuVTQCgzCvZ 25k1U3o3sobPXtqlUMtC0qc= =ayRI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 23:41 -0400, steve wrote:
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you went through the nvidia binary driver install process as root, and actually installed the driver, rebooted, and no 3d?
try
sax2 -r
logout and login, open sax2 again and the 3d box should be checked, if not something went wrong with the binary install i guess, repeat.
Yes, I installed binary driver from online repsitory. New kernel has
been installed and I rebooted it without problem. My resolution is
1280x1024 but 3D was not working.
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arijit sarkar
arijit sarkar wrote:
Hi everybody,
I was an user of Ubuntu (yes, was!). After using opensuse 10.3 BETA for few days I've decided to shift to Opensuse. It's simply brilliant and too professional. I'm from India. And right now (23:00 IST), I've started downloading the iso-image for Gnome CD. It'll take some time to complete, approx 7-8 hrs (the whole night, Internet is too slow here and fat bandwidth costs much - but that's a different story).
All I want to know, that I've Geforce 8600GT graphics card. In BETA CD, it was detected properly but I couldn't use 3D acceleration. Can anybody tell me how to get 3D acceleration? Any link to online help/wikis etc will do.
I have the 8600GT and you should install the binary drivers. See the aforemention NVIDIA page on the wiki for more info. The only other trick is to *never* use the YaST tool to change the display settings. It just makes things worse. Always use the nvidia-config program to change them. Also, run the nvidia-config program as root for best results. I just added 'kdesu' to the front of the nvidia-config command in the menu item. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Linux Brain Dump - Linux Notes, HOWTOs and Tutorials: http://www.linuxbraindump.org Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
participants (7)
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Andrés Cosa
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arijit sarkar
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Bjørn Lie
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Brad Bourn
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Gabriel .
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Jonathan Arnold
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steve