Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (487 mails)

[Dave Plater <davejplater@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/11/2010 08:36 PM, Donn Washburn wrote:
> On 05/11/2010 11:24 AM, Dean Hilkewich wrote:
> > On 05/11/2010 09:04 AM, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> >   
> > > the X-Server is smart enough to try the various nVidia drivers in
> > > order:
> > > nvidia (binary blob) ->  nouveau ->  nv
> > >
> > > The first one to work will be used... and all this logic without an
> > > xorg.conf file...
> > >
> > > Dominique
> > >
> > >      
> > This maybe true but there are several settings that still require a
> > xorg.  Broken EDID's and multi-gpu's spring to mind as well as items
> > like compositing.
> >
> > Dean
> >
> >    
> I sure hope you are correct.  However, where is the NV bootsplash.
> This is a GeForce 7600 GS the last AGP version made
>
> hwinfo --gfxcard show this is lacking
>
> Driver Info #0:
>     Driver Status: nvidiafb is not active
>     Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nvidiafb"
>   Driver Info #1:
>     Driver Status: nouveau is not active
>     Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nouveau"
>   Driver Info #2:
>     Driver Status: nvidia is not active
>     Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nvidia"
>
> This implies another openSuSE guess/setup problem.
>
> I loaded all of them and will give this a try
Have you tried System - Configuration - Configure NVIDIA x server
settings yet?
Dave P
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