Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2271 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Luca Mollica <luca_mollica@xxxxxxxxxxx> [04-27-04 09:30]:
> On Tuesday 27 April 2004 14:36, Radu Voicu wrote:
> > No, but I have a similar issue, after installing the driver, sax2 said
> > it cannot enable 3D on the card, and I have to download the "original"
> > driver from Nvidia (which I just did, via Yast) :))
> 
> ...but, as I restarted Linux after original driver installation, now I can see 
> a very nice BLANK scren in front of my face!!! :-(

At the linux start-up screen, issue 'init 3'
when you get control at the command line, issue 'switch2nv'
then issue 'init 5'

You will have X back but *no* 3d (and will not be using the new
nvidia drivers).

To use sax2, from an 'init 3' screen, issue 'sax2 -l'
  this will bring up sax2 at 600x480 (barely readable on lcd)
  
note:  I installed a new video (FX5200) card into an amd machine with
       an lcd and was unable to use 3d or the nvidia drivers (no, I do
       not know why and no-one has been able to tell me why/how).
       
also:  I did not try, 'sax2 -l -m 0=nvidia'  (afterthought)      
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