Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Tuesday 2005-02-08 at 10:53 -0600, John N. Alegre wrote:

> I am starting to question my own sanity when it comes to NVIDIA drivers.

Heh, heh :-)

> About two months ago this happened and for some reason the above sh script / 
> sax2 thing did not work.  I tried both the 6629 drivers and the 5336 drivers 
> with no luck.  After a day of cursing I just gave up.  The machine is used 
> for two things.  One is a mail router and the other is a MySQL server.  

Ah, so you don't use it for 3d playing? :-P

In that case, I would simply use the standar "open" driver: ie, 'nv' 
instead of 'nvidia'. Not so many features, but it works, and no updates 
issues at all:

Section "Device"                # ---- open driver, GPL ---
  Identifier    "Device[0]"
  BoardName     "GeForce2 MX/MX 400"
  BusID         "1:0:0"
  Driver        "nv"    <======================
  VendorName    "NVidia"
EndSection

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Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson