On Wednesday 17 April 2002 02:01 am, you wrote:
How will SuSE-8.0 cope with nVIDIA graphics hardware? I persuaded a colleague to install 7.3 on his box and was horribly embarassed by the way it repeatedly crashed as soon as KDE was running.
Once I'd got the latest nVIDIA drivers in place it was fine, but the whole installation experience wasn't a good advertisement for "easy to install" Linux!
======================== Derek, My guess is to put the blame where blame is due in this case! Blame nVidia and the graphics card included in the laptop. This can't be
I wasn't looking to aportion blame. The machine is a desktop, not a laptop, and it's a supplied office machine. Like most people in an office environment, we at IBM don't get to choose the hardware the company puts in front of us.
The nVIDIA setup in 7.3 just didn't work out of the box for the machine I tried it on. It locked the machine solid. I don't care who's fault it is, I just wondered if SuSE have made efforts to ensure their product works better for 8.0.
That's just it though. For most who are using an nVidia card, the nVidia drivers from their site, work just fine. It's *not* a SuSE problem. Install them with YaST1, then configure them in (if necessary) with SaX2 or X11configurator in YaST2 modules. John -- Microsoft says: You *will* use our products. You *will* pay us what we ask. You *will* be happy with it or we sick our lawyers on you!