I have installed nvidia's drivers for my gforce card, its up and running using SAX2 however sax2 will not allow me to turn on the graphics acceleration how do i fix this please? Thanks much Dave
Armisis Aieoln wrote:
I have installed nvidia's drivers for my gforce card, its up and running using SAX2 however sax2 will not allow me to turn on the graphics acceleration how do i fix this please?
Thanks much
Dave
I've read somewhere that 3D acceleration is the default in nvidia's later drivers, though I can't find the document at present, I may have to check the nvidia site in case that's where I read it. I run unreal-tournament 2004 demo and FlightGear with good framerates, observed rather than measured. I checked with glxinfo and xdpyinfo, but didn't see a reference to 3D acceleration, but have a vague memory of seeing it with earlier drivers. I've not used sax2, I just altered the "Driver nv" to "Driver nvidia". Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 22:53, Sid Boyce wrote:
Armisis Aieoln wrote:
I have installed nvidia's drivers for my gforce card, its up and running using SAX2 however sax2 will not allow me to turn on the graphics acceleration how do i fix this please?
Thanks much
Dave
I've read somewhere that 3D acceleration is the default in nvidia's later drivers, though I can't find the document at present, I may have to check the nvidia site in case that's where I read it. I run unreal-tournament 2004 demo and FlightGear with good framerates, observed rather than measured. I checked with glxinfo and xdpyinfo, but didn't see a reference to 3D acceleration, but have a vague memory of seeing it with earlier drivers. I've not used sax2, I just altered the "Driver nv" to "Driver nvidia". Regards Sid.
I don't know if it's the default, but I can say that the 3D acceleration does work on my system (GeForce FX 5600 using Nvidia's 1.0-5336 drivers). SaX claims that the 3D acceleration is not enabled but UT2003 is running just fine. :)
Mark McKibben wrote:
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 22:53, Sid Boyce wrote:
Armisis Aieoln wrote:
I have installed nvidia's drivers for my gforce card, its up and running using SAX2 however sax2 will not allow me to turn on the graphics acceleration how do i fix this please?
Thanks much
Dave
I've read somewhere that 3D acceleration is the default in nvidia's later drivers, though I can't find the document at present, I may have to check the nvidia site in case that's where I read it. I run unreal-tournament 2004 demo and FlightGear with good framerates, observed rather than measured. I checked with glxinfo and xdpyinfo, but didn't see a reference to 3D acceleration, but have a vague memory of seeing it with earlier drivers. I've not used sax2, I just altered the "Driver nv" to "Driver nvidia". Regards Sid.
I don't know if it's the default, but I can say that the 3D acceleration does work on my system (GeForce FX 5600 using Nvidia's 1.0-5336 drivers). SaX claims that the 3D acceleration is not enabled but UT2003 is running just fine. :)
My experience exactly with the FX5200 128M card. I think SaX is looking for something else, so is not able to detect it with the latest drivers. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 10:44, Sid Boyce wrote:
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On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 22:53, Sid Boyce wrote:
My experience exactly with the FX5200 128M card. I think SaX is looking for something else, so is not able to detect it with the latest drivers. Regards Sid.
Glad to hear that people have the Geforce FX5200 running, but I am having problems. I have a Biostar Geforce FX5200 with an Asus A7V8X-X motherboard. Doing a clean install of SuSE 9.0 Pro. The install goes fine, and the default nv drivers work fine. At the moment I am using the 2.4.21-99 athlon kernel. do not have the kernel source installed. I read the read me on the nvidia site for SuSE users. That recommended using YOU to install the patch. I used YOU to install the nvidia driver. When I restarted X I got nothing. Just a blank screen. I then noticed the read me said something about not having the nvidia module loaded when doing the install. Even though I was using the nv module, I reinstalled SuSE, and then used Yast from runlevel 3 to install the nvidia patch. Black screen when I type startx. If I log in as root and type sax2, then sax2 uses the nv driver and everything works fine. If I type sax2 -m 0=nvidia, then I get a blank screen. Can't even Ctl-Alt-F@ to get to another console. I assumed that I didn't need the kernel source installed if I used the YOU method. maybe i should use the alternate method of running the nvidia installer with the source package installed. Any ideas? Mike -- Michael A. Coan Woodlawn Foundation 524 North Avenue, Suite 203 New Rochelle, NY 10801-3410 tel 914-632-3778 fax 914-632-5502
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 14:43, Michael A Coan wrote:
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 10:44, Sid Boyce wrote:
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On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 22:53, Sid Boyce wrote:
My experience exactly with the FX5200 128M card. I think SaX is looking for something else, so is not able to detect it with the latest drivers. Regards Sid.
Glad to hear that people have the Geforce FX5200 running, but I am having problems.
I have a Biostar Geforce FX5200 with an Asus A7V8X-X motherboard. Doing a clean install of SuSE 9.0 Pro. The install goes fine, and the default nv drivers work fine. At the moment I am using the 2.4.21-99 athlon kernel. do not have the kernel source installed.
Install the Source...Think that is needed. Then run YOU online update again to update the source, then to make sure I would go to /usr/src/linux and then run "make cloneconfig && make dep" I have had issues with agpgart on the 2.4.21 kernel, being that is seriously out of date with regards to some chipsets, notably with regards to SiS chipsets.
I read the read me on the nvidia site for SuSE users. That recommended using YOU to install the patch. I used YOU to install the nvidia driver. When I restarted X I got nothing. Just a blank screen.
Then I would proceed with their other instructions...
I then noticed the read me said something about not having the nvidia module loaded when doing the install. Even though I was using the nv module, I reinstalled SuSE, and then used Yast from runlevel 3 to install the nvidia patch. Black screen when I type startx.
Couple or more ways of doing this: 1. End session, control-alt-F1 and log in as root. Then type init 3, then you may have to manually remove the nvidia module with modprobe -r nvidia. 2. Log in as root in another screen, type rcxdm stop, remove module as per previous instruction. sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run --update then needs to be executed as root, if this fails, or if it states that its already up to date go ahead and force the update with the --force-update instead of just --update.
If I log in as root and type sax2, then sax2 uses the nv driver and everything works fine. If I type sax2 -m 0=nvidia, then I get a blank screen. Can't even Ctl-Alt-F@ to get to another console.
Can try this again after the above is done.
I assumed that I didn't need the kernel source installed if I used the YOU method. maybe i should use the alternate method of running the nvidia installer with the source package installed.
You assumed correctly, at least that is what I got from the instructions, supposedly the easiest method.
Any ideas?
dmesg would be useful, as well as lspci...Knowing the chipset helps. Dmesg primarily to see if agpgart claims an unknown chipset. Matt
On Wednesday 03 March 2004 18:14, Matthew Johnson wrote:
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Install the Source...Think that is needed. Then run YOU online update again to update the source, then to make sure I would go to /usr/src/linux and then run "make cloneconfig && make dep" I have had issues with agpgart on the 2.4.21 kernel, being that is seriously out of date with regards to some chipsets, notably with regards to SiS chipsets.
I read the read me on the nvidia site for SuSE users. That recommended using YOU to install the patch. I used YOU to install the nvidia driver. When I restarted X I got nothing. Just a blank screen.
Then I would proceed with their other instructions...
I then noticed the read me said something about not having the nvidia module loaded when doing the install. Even though I was using the nv module, I reinstalled SuSE, and then used Yast from runlevel 3 to install the nvidia patch. Black screen when I type startx.
Couple or more ways of doing this:
1. End session, control-alt-F1 and log in as root. Then type init 3, then you may have to manually remove the nvidia module with modprobe -r nvidia.
2. Log in as root in another screen, type rcxdm stop, remove module as per previous instruction.
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run --update then needs to be executed as root, if this fails, or if it states that its already up to date go ahead and force the update with the --force-update instead of just --update.
If I log in as root and type sax2, then sax2 uses the nv driver and everything works fine. If I type sax2 -m 0=nvidia, then I get a blank screen. Can't even Ctl-Alt-F@ to get to another console.
Can try this again after the above is done.
I assumed that I didn't need the kernel source installed if I used the YOU method. maybe i should use the alternate method of running the nvidia installer with the source package installed.
You assumed correctly, at least that is what I got from the instructions, supposedly the easiest method.
Any ideas?
dmesg would be useful, as well as lspci...Knowing the chipset helps. Dmesg primarily to see if agpgart claims an unknown chipset.
Matt
thanks for the info. Will try it this weekend. I am battling a vmware problem I have to solve first. Mike -- Michael A. Coan Woodlawn Foundation 524 North Avenue, Suite 203 New Rochelle, NY 10801-3410 tel 914-632-3778 fax 914-632-5502
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I have installed nvidia's drivers for my gforce card, its up and running using SAX2 however sax2 will not allow me to turn on the graphics acceleration how do i fix this please?
Thanks much
Dave
You can try to install the driver in this way, run this command: #> sax2 -m 0=nvidia - -- [--Saluti Giuseppe Cavallo /*ICQ=94835351*/--] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFARZDfAnW6Ybs9N8wRAsL2AJ48THmvLtN/3vLqav9UzsfUYGTgOgCgn0Rv G8BZQH0sMxmBksQ1cpR+p4g= =IG/2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Don't worry about Sax2, I do not know, why the NVidia install tool says you should enable 3d in sax. When you used the install tool by Nvidia, restart your xserver (for installing you already have to be in runlevel 3) thus init 5 and everything 3D will run just fine. By JE
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On Wednesday 03 March 2004 02:56, Armisis Aieoln wrote:
I have installed nvidia's drivers for my gforce card, its up and running using SAX2 however sax2 will not allow me to turn on the graphics acceleration how do i fix this please?
Thanks much
Dave
You can try to install the driver in this way, run this command: #> sax2 -m 0=nvidia
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