On Thursday 23 December 2004 00:27, Richard wrote:
Ok, so I made the switch to nvidia, 6600GT. Now what? Following the instructions on the nvidia website I used YOU to install the patch and all seemed to go well there. It then said, "...logout, login back in and you're fine..." Apparently not. Check with SAX2 still shows card as VESA framebuffer device. I tried deleting that and specifying the 6600GT card and got some hiccups and a big burp. Lost the X system. Is there something else I need to do to get the card recognized and running? Should I follow the X configure step listed even though the site seemed to think this would be done already? Sorry. I am a babe in the woods here. Richard
Hello Richard, I have the same card with X working fine. Go to the nvidia site (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-6629.html) download the nvidia driver. Once downloaded make sure that you have the kernel sources installed and updated, both via Yast, and then configure them thus ( you need to be root); #>cd /usr/src/linux #>make cloneconfig && make dep Shut down and restart your computer and boot to runlevel 3 (by typing "init 3" at the grub boot screen), login as root. (you can do this from an X session by Run Command> init 3, I think). (Note; you will have to be able to use a text editor from the terminal you log in to. MC is what I use.) Then run the downloaded shell script thus (change your current directory to the directory where you downloaded the file); #>sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run It will ask you whether you want to check if there is an already compiled version of the driver on the Nvidia site, answer No to this. It will then compile and install the 6629 driver. In the process it might also ask whether you want to uninstall an old version of the driver (if you have one installed), say Yes to this. Start the text editor (mc at the command prompt for Midnight Commander) and edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config. Save the old configuration in that directory as XF86Config.old. Close XF86Config.old and reopen XF86Config. Look for the section that starts "Section 'Module'", and make sure that it looks like this; Section "Module" Load "glx" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" Load "v4l" Load "type1" Load "speedo" EndSection Look for the section that starts "Section 'Device'" and make sure that it looks like this; Section "Device" BoardName "NVIDIA GEFORCE 6600 GT" BusID "1:0:0" Driver "nvidia" Identifier "Device[0]" Option "NvAGP" "0" Screen 0 VendorName "NVIDIA" EndSection There are many other options that you can set here but the above works for me. Your monitor section is also a crucial one, but I am assuming that you have already set it up once via Sax2 for an old driver. If you do not know what you are doing do not alter anything else in this file, especially the monitor settings and the modes. Save the file, close the editor and try to start X with the 'startx' command. If you see the nvidia logo then the driver has loaded and you can go into runlevel 5 as normal. If it does not work, rename /etc/X11/XF86Config.old to /etc/X11/XF86Config, and repost with the relevant excerpts from /var/log/XFree86.0.log. Hope this helps, Allister -- Public Key to be found at www.keyserver.net. Search for tag@ukfsn