Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2912 mails)

[Jeffrey Laramie <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 08 February 2005 18:19, blabla wrote:
> John N. Alegre wrote:
> > I am starting to question my own sanity when it comes to NVIDIA drivers.
>
> You are not the first one!
>
> I've encountered two problems with Suse:
>
> - it only works if you update when actually logged in as root. A normal
> user who enters the root password for YAST is no good.
>
> - check your XF86Config file in /etc/X11 and make sure it says the
> following:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>    Driver       "kbd"
>    Identifier   "Keyboard[0]"
>
> Suse 9.2 put Driver "keybord" into my file and my system displayed
> exactly the problems you mentioned. Changing "keyboard" to "kbd" did the
> trick!!!

BTW, I had the same issue when I installed the new ATI drivers in an x86_64 
system. The driver won't run if Input device is at the default setting of 
"Keyboard". It must be "kbd". Also "UseInternalAGPGART" must be set to "no" 
in the XF86Config-4 / xorg.conf file.

Jeff