Dave Plater wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
For starters, despite my best attempts with sax2, I cannot get my display to change resolution to something other than 800x600. Sax2 allowed me to choose the monitor I have the box connected to at the moment. A NEC Accusync95F, with details set to 19" 5/4 and with the correct size, Horiz. and Vert. freq. ranges. However, sax2 detected my 8800GT as a generic frame buffer card. Sax does allow me to choose the resolution I want 1280x1024, but when I hit test, the screen come up in 800x600 no matter what I do. I have had this problem with XP before, but never with openSuSE. I'm sure a large part of this is due to the fact my 8800 GT was configured as a frame buffer device.
Good news is the latest nvidia 177.80 driver works fine with beta 5 kernel, at least the 32 bit one does for me. That should sort out your video.
Double lastly, I can't put my finger on it, but there is a speed issue with KDE4. When clicking different dialog, notably in KDE control center, you can count to 3 before the next tab on the dialog actually appears. If I'm seeing slowness on a phenom 9850, 4G and an NV8800GT, then it must be really slow on all the earlier pentiums, etc.. What is everyone else seeing?
An interesting thing I've found with the kde beta 4 live cd is my lowly 64 bit celeron dual core with only 1 gig ram running at 1600 MHz visibly outperforms an amd 64 dual core running at 2400MHz with 2 gig ram. Regards Dave P
Dave, all: The fonts issue was cured when I just edited my xorg.conf and changed the frame buffer device Driver line to the open source nv driver: Section "Device" BoardName "Framebuffer Graphics" #Driver "fbdev" Driver "nv" Identifier "Device[0]" Screen 0 VendorName "VESA" EndSection Rebooted and presto, the desktop came back at 1280x1024, the fonts were readable, looked good, the Blue-Curl desktop and wallpaper were there and most _but not all_ of the slowness with the desktop vanished! Why doesn't sax set the driver to "nv" for nvidia cards by default?? I know for a fact that it used to. It has just been since 11.0 that yast/sax has lost the ability to set the "nv" driver by default. Through 10.3, all I used to need to do after installing the nvidia binary was change: #Driver "nv" Driver "nvidia" in xorg.conf an reboot. This issues should be of highest priority for 11.1 along with making sure that the "radeon" driver is set by default for ATI cards. There is no reason or excuse for sax to set "fbdev" on either nvidia or ATI cards when they are so widely recognizable during install and the list of cards supported by both the nv and radeon drivers so widely available. I don't have market share stats, but I would wager that somewhere between 75%--90% of all openSuSE installs have either an nvidia or ATI GPU. Getting this right could dramatically cut down on problems and negative reactions during install. Next installing the nvidia binary was a breeze. I just downloaded the binary driver "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.82-pkg2.run" from the nvidia site and dropped to runlevel 3 and executed: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.82-pkg2.run -q sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia and changed back to runlevel 5 and that was it. Display looks great. Blue_Curl login theme and desktop wallpaper looks great with silicon theme. Now, except for my compiz problem, it looks like the base graphics config is now complete on my 11.1 Beta5 install with just a bit more work than normal. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. | Rankin Law Firm, PLLC | Countdown for openSuSE 11.1 510 Ochiltree Street | http://counter.opensuse.org/11.1/small Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 | Telephone: (936) 715-9333 | openSoftware und SystemEntwicklung Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 | http://www.opensuse.org/ www.rankinlawfirm.com | -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org