Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Peter Taylor <murmur@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 03 May 2002 09:47 am, Shawn Tanner wrote:
> On Friday 03 May 2002 06:23, Peter Taylor wrote:
> >   I am still wrestling with SuSE 8.0 on a Dell Optiplex GX240 (nVidia
> > GeForce2 GTS AGP card and Dell E771p monitor).  I boot into runlevel 3 by
> > default.  The "nv" driver seems to be mostly working now, but I get
> > inconsistent results when I kill it with cntl-alt-backspace.  Sometimes
> > this works (I still have to hit cntl-C to get my prompt back), but it
> > often locks up with only the wallpaper left on the screen, and I keep
> > having to cycle the power.  I thought I had fixed this by making the
> > console the display manager in yast, but apparently not.  Any ideas?
> >
> >   And can anyone tell me where to find documentation about "apic" and
> > "apci"?
>
> I am currently using a GeForce2 GTS AGP and am not experiencing any
> problems. You mention that the "nv" driver is mostly working.  Why are you
> using that driver?  The driver from nvidia "nvidia" works great.  Have you
> tried this driver and did it work?  Are you purposely not downloading the
> kernel and glx drivers supplied by Suse for Nvidia cards?

  Thanks.  That's nice to know.  Was this on a Dell computer, and did you 
need to use "safe settings" to do the install?  I presume you are using 8.0?

  Bear in mind that I am a relative newbie.  I get the impression from 
reading this suse-linux-e list that everyone is just supposed to know that, 
of course, any x.0 software release is going to be horribly buggy, and one 
has to download a slew of fixes with YOU before expecting anything to work.  
I did not do this.  I did go to the nVidia site (mentioned in either the SuSE 
manual or the support data base) and download their drivers, but I did not 
install them; I had no intention of doing anything as "advanced" as fooling 
with 3D acceleration until after I had the system basically working.

  It never occured to me that the "nv" driver might be the problem.  For one 
thing, the "nv" driver (perhaps an older version?) works fine under Red Hat 
7.2, and has for a co-worker with purportedly identical hardware for several 
months.  I also thought that the problem can't be the driver, because the 
symptom is that I don't get a text console back after the GUI has already 
been killed (or partially killed), which I presume is the responsibility of 
something far more fundamental than the "nv" driver.

  On Friday morning, I gave up.  I had spent a week trying to get a usable 
SuSE 8.0 system installed, without success, so I got the Red Hat 7.2 CDs back 
out, and within an hour everything was working except for the wheel on my 
wheel mouse and read access to my NTFS partitions.

  Maybe in a few weeks I will try again with the more enlightened perspective 
that the installation CDs contain not so much an OS as an invitation to 
download one.

  Thanks,
  Peter Taylor