Tom Allison wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 03.56, Tom Allison wrote:
I'm probably missing a long discussion as I just subscribed to the list:
(I was out on an adventure trying different distros and broke my mail)
However, I'm kind of stuck on one element of the NVIDIA video card problem:
According to ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/nvidia-installer-H
OWTO I should download kernel sources and the like to install the driver.
That didn't work at all.
Why not?
Did you download the correct kernel sources, the kernel-source.rpm corresponding to your kernel version? Did you prepare the sources with
cd /usr/src/linux make mrproper make cloneconfig make dep
before running the nvidia installer?
Then I hit the SuSE database and found another entry where you just manually select the fetchnvidia driver package and reboot (I never heard of rebooting a Linux box, but OK)
No need to reboot, it's just to save newbies the experience of going to text mode. The instructions are seriously confused. For example, some instructions say you should go to runlevel 3, while all that's really needed is to stop X. Oh well, all roads lead to Rome I guess
Now, how do I verify if I really do have 3D support?
glxinfo|grep "direct rendering"
It should say Yes
You may have to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and change Driver from "nv" to "nvidia" in the Device section
Everything you have here says it should work great.
glxinfo shows direct rendering. Some of the 3D games are definitely kicking butt.
Unfortunately I'm not sure what else I did. When I CTRL+ALT+F1 I am greeted with "OUT OF RANGE" on my monitor. This is bad, because it never did this before and if X fails I'm toast.
:-) You have hit the nVIDIA Driver Brickwall Syndrome. Even the very latest driver (5336), which is supposed to have fixed all sorts of problems, causes you to hit the Brickwall. Tell us (me) which video card you are using and which version of the kernel (Athlon or non-Athlon)? Depending on your answer, you may have to go back to the #4363 driver (you would uninstall the driver you just installed with 'nvidia-installer --uninstall' and then install the #4363 driver. (What I concluded is that any driver after #4363 does not like something in the combination of the Athlon CPU and (?) any card below, say, FX5200 (eg MX 400, 440. This is a broad statement and is not meant to be authorative.) Cheers. -- All Scottish food is based on a dare.