On Friday 21 Oct 2005 4:39 pm, Basil Chupin wrote:
Keith Powell wrote:
On Thursday 20 Oct 2005 9:35 pm, Brad Bourn wrote:
On Thursday 20 October 2005 1:56 pm, Keith Powell wrote: So I am wondering if sometimes the NVIDIA driver kicks in, and sometimes it doesn't. But I may be wrong.
If you see the splash - its using the nvidia driver "nvidia" If you don't see the spash - its using a different driver "nv" (oss) perhaps? maybe even VESA.
I have found that with SuSE 10.0 and the nVidia driver there is no nVidia splash screen coming up as in the past.
You can tell if the nVidia driver is installed by looking in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file where you will see 'nvidia' instead of 'nv' in the section "Device" (referring to the monitor).
To reset the position of the screen go to Control Centre/Hardware/Graphics Card and Monitor and configure your card/monitor. When this is done and you finish you are asked if you want to test this setup - do so and this is where you adjust the position of the screen; adjust it to the right or left.
Thanks for your reply, Basil. The NVIDIA splash screen is a peculiar one. I have now spent most of two days trying various ways of solving the problem. If, after a boot or restart, it is one of the few occasions that the screen is correctly centred, sometimes there has been a flash of the splash screen and other times there hasn't. I have even logged out when the screen is not centred, to see the NVIDIA splash screen before kdm appears, and then the kdm screen is centred. Logging back in and all is OK. I have also set the screen correctly in the graphics card and monitor settings, many times, only to find that the screen is off centre again the next time I reboot or restart. This problem is now beyond me, and I am going to let Brad see my log file. I really don't want to only be able to use the "nv" driver with SUSE10, especially as I have had no problems with using the "nvidia" driver in previous versions. Cheers Keith The driver in the xorg.conf file is "nvidia". I have regularly checked while I have been trying to sort the problem.