Funny that you should mention that. I have had the opposite experience with my Athlon XP 3000 NForce 2 combination. No way maybe could I install the FX5700 card but my venerable Ti4200 as well as an MX card worked fine with any and every version of drivers. Suse was no help, neither was Nvidia. The original install went smoothly so I was particularly consternated to find a weird screen and be unable to access the GUI to load drivers and config XFree. So after fumbling for a week to ten days late one night after work I made the switch to an NVidia 4 MX and voila there Sax2 and Yast to play with.Once freed from the command line install of all drivers went smooth but even though I loaded the latest and greatest from NVidia the stubborn FX 5700 still would not work. So I simply switched cards. Suse is now quite comfortable with the Asus TI 4200 and my other NForce AMD combo running XP works fine with the FX5200. That set my dual boot plans back but what the hey. I feel the Suse 9.0 product is overall strong and compares favorabbly with say Red Hat 9.0 I was especially impressed with Samba. I can see every Windows share and drive without any extra work. I suspect the problem is exactly a bleeding edge Vid card and poor support for that particular prouct on any platform other than Windows. It is great for gaming but that makes it somewhat limiting if i wanted to say try to install say Free BSD or some other exotic flavor or distro. In all fairness to Suse Tech support they did try to help with the problem which is more thanI can say for NVidia who never returned my email. Donald Correll
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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. Cheers.
Thanks for the above info, and i hope it's ok to jump in here ? (newbie2?) I was a pleased Suse 8.0 user until that NVidia stuff hit the fan and ruined it for me. I have kernel 2.4.18_4GB with an AMD 2.4 G CPU on an Asus A7S333 M/Bd, with a GeForce2 MX64L -400 card, and i attempted to do the Suse security upgrade plus the NV driver (my first try -#4363 i think)), without doing enough reading and without killing X, so i ended up with a real mess - no video, no modem, Sax2 crippled etc. Now i've had to go back toWin98se to even get online, despite trying to reinstall Suse 8.0 Personal many times. What a disaster! Elitist bullshit? instead of help?
Personally i feel NVidia should be shot with a ball of their own <scat>, and Suse should never have allowed us newbies to be treated so badly. Changed my plans to buy 8.2 or 9.0 until i see if another distro or an ATI card is the way out for me. If you'd care to enlighten me about this NV card and this AMD cpu, i would certainly like to know more about it. Thanks, BrianB.