Brian, It sounds like you got the 3d working on your card. The only step that it looks like you missed was fine tuning the setting. When you test the reolution in Sax2 it brings up a screen with some arrows and such. Using these you can center and expand/contract your window until it fits your screen properly. I have noticed with some cards (used to happen with me Geforce 2, but not any more) that it does not display the screen properly and the buttons don't seem to do anything. When I was having this problem I would look at my screen go into SAX2 and move it the way I thought it would work and it usually came out ok. As for the grey screen CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE will exit you from your xserver (grey screen). I hope this helps. Austin Morgan On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 06:01:24PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
Hi again,
After doing the recommended updates with YAST2 (including the new NVIDIA drivers), I followed the instructions in the article at:
http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=...
to get 3D going with my NVIDIA (3) powered card. Followed the instructuins to use SAX2, exited and restarted. The desktop moved to the left and left me with an odd screen that was still all in sight, but wasn't sightly. I went into SAX2 and changed my monitor from ViewSonic e-70-3 to e-711. When I exited SAX2, the screen turned grey and I couldn't get any response, so I had to push the power button on my box and restart. The secreen still looked odd, so I went inot YAST2 and tried to turn 3D off. Screen turned grey and I was forced to reboot with the power button again. This time I came up with the screen looking OK, but no 3D of course.
What do I need to do to get 3D and is there another way to get out of the grey screen?
Here is my configuration:
ViewSonic E70 (not E70-3) Soyo Dragon Plus! motherboard Asus V8200 video card powered by NVIDIA GeForce 3 chip SuSE 7.3 Pro
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Brian
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