Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (278 mails)

["Matt T." <Matt@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 22 September 2004 03:22, Luis Jose Maia Amoreira wrote:
> Hi again. Thanks for your help.
> I tried using YOU to install the nvidia driver. Let me explain how it
> didn't work. My monitor has a resolution of 1400x1050, and this is how I
> like to work. But after I finish the YOU procedure for the instalation of
> the nvidia driver, the resolution was set to the lower value of 1024x768.
> Besides, the text console, even if it wasn't out of sync, was not
> satisfactory, it showed many regularly spaced white stripes. Wen I set the
> resolution up again to 1400x1050, I got again the syncing problems.
> Any comments appreciated,
> Ze
>

Check which version of the nvidia driver YOU did install for you? If it is not 
6111 (but older, such as 6106 etc.) then I recommend to manually download and 
install the nvidia driver version 6111 (or later, if there is a new one.)

The problem went away for me when I did that.

However I have not tested it with a kernel version < 2.6.7. Now I'm using one 
of SuSE's kotd, which are 2.6.8 kernels.

You need to have the kernel sources installed for the kernel you are using in 
order to manually install (compile) the nvidia driver.

On the nvidia site there is a readme for the manual install of the driver on 
SuSE, I did follow it, it was easy, and it worked fine.

HTH,
Matt