Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-multimedia (27 mails)

[Bogi Mouritsen <bogi@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks all.

My problem is solved.

Getting the kernel and source in sync then setting all up in sax2 when 
in init 3 proved to solve it at last. Some of the other stunts along the 
way, may have contributed - I couldn't tell.

Thanks again.

:)Bogi

Carsten Koch wrote:

> Bogi Mouritsen wrote:
>
> > Thanks that brought me a bit further. Unfortunantly I'm not quite 
> > there yet.
> >
> > I removed kernel sources, installed them again, ran YOU and rebooted.
> > I then followed the instructions stated below (make cloneconfig, make 
> > prepare-all, init 3 and ran the nvidia-installer again) which brought 
> > me to a position where the installer warned me that "rivafb" was 
> > included as a loadable module and that that might cause conflicts. I 
> > proceeded and the installer terminated cleanly. I ran Sax2 which 
> > detected  me NVidia 0x0281 card. I started X and proceeded to Sax2 in 
> > graphical mode to enable 3D acceleration. I ran the "test" which gave 
> > the following:
> >    X Server test failed
> >    NVIDIA(0): *** aborting ***
> >    Screen(s) found, but none have usable configuration
> >
> > What's next?
>
>
>
> Do a
>    init 3
> and
>    modprobe nvidia
> manually as root.
>
> Does it work?
> Does lsmod report the nvidia module?
> Start sax2 again (in the console window under runlevel 3)
> and enable 3D acceleration.
>
> Carsten.