Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2009 mails)

[vhf@xxxxxxxxx (filip)]

Hello,

I'm a newbie, old but willing to undo windoze, specially for my son.
About 3 months running 6.4 - great - not a good unix user but can
manage.
Sorry for that introduction but I would like my son to use SuSE.

To do so, I have 2 problems :

1. X : ( card geforce2 GTS )

During the installation yast2 gives me a Fbdev driver or something like
that.
This gives me a xf86.config file. I managed to upgrade to XFree4(2nd
disk).
Then I tried to install the nv driver with sax2. Hopeless ( to many
parameters ).
Sometimes I even get a black screen. Since I myself work with suse6.4
and a geforce DDR, I cann't understand why that geforce2 GTS doesn't
work.I read a lot of it for redhat but couldn't find for Suse.

My questions are :
- where to begin correctly
- how to install the nvidia drivers ( suppose upgrading to X4.01 )
- how to install the glx nvidia
- Do I need to first upgrade to another kernel?
- Do I need to insmod agpart module first and howtodothat.

2. Quake 3 :
Only having a working area isn't so exciting for a young boy. I tried to
get quake3 working with my card but it fails.(very very slow, the mouse
isn't responding or very badly etc... )
I suppose the installation is different in suse than in other
distributions.

My question is :
Once I fixed question 1 how do I install properly quake 3 in SuSE6.4

I really thank you for any advise.
Filip.


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