Hi Shawn, On Tuesday 23 May 2006 21:11, Shawn Holland wrote:
I'll assume your questions / statements were made for my MSI G2TiVX Pro-VT.
Yes. I'm focusing on the original card because you were getting good service from it until you upgraded to 10.0.
I have never tried to use both at the same time. I use to just switch between the two.
I think the card you've got is designed to operate this way, anyway.
And this card use to work just fine with the nvidia drivers back in 9.2 I honestly believe the problem is in the nv / SuSE driver. If I could get the legacy driver to install it most likely would work.
I'm inclined to agree. Towards that end, there are still some unanswered questions in this thread concerning the process that you followed. I'd like to confirm you've covered all the bases: 1. From the 7174 README.txt file: Before beginning the driver installation, you should exit... X... [and] set your default run level so you will... not boot directly into X. Q: Before you ran the installer, did you log out of your desktop, switch from the login greeter to a console (Ctl+Alt+F1) log in as root and drop the system to runlevel 3 to shut down X? Did you then edit /etc/inittab to reset the default runlevel to 3? 2. Also from the 7174 README.txt file: The NVIDIA kernel module has a kernel interface layer which must be compiled specifically for the configuration and version of the kernel you are running... Q: Do you know which kernel interface was selected for your system? Was it a precompiled one or did the installer have to custom compile it on your system? 3. From SUSE's nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html: On SUSE LINUX 10.0 you need to add the following entries to /etc/udev/static_devices.txt: nvidia0 c 195 0 666 nvidia1 c 195 1 666 nvidia2 c 195 2 666 nvidia3 c 195 3 666 nvidia4 c 195 4 666 nvidia5 c 195 5 666 nvidia6 c 195 6 666 nvidia7 c 195 7 666 nvidiactl c 195 255 666 Q: Did you add these devices to /etc/udev/static_devices.txt? [Note for 10.1 users... there are newer requirements in this area spelled out in the same file.] 4. In re: compiling and installing the module... You wrote "... after successful completion of the compile of 1.0-7174 I still could not get SaX2 to load the nvidia drivers." Basil offered two comments: "Something not right here... I have NEVER had a problem with paths not being correct." and "Forget about letting Sax2 adjust the xorg.conf file - go in there manually and charge the driver to "nvidia"." Q: Did you investigate the source of the path discrepancy you experienced and can you now explain it? Can you fill out my understanding (succinctly) of any problems you encountered while building this module? #5 also pertains to xorg.conf: 5. From the 7174 README.txt file: Find the relevant Device section [in xorg.conf] and replace the line Driver "nv" (or Driver "vesa") with Driver "nvidia" In the Module section, make sure you have: Load "glx" You should also remove the following lines: Load "dri" Load "GLcore" if they exist. There are also numerous options that can be added to the X config file to fine-tune the NVIDIA X driver. Please see Appendix D for a complete list of these options. Q: Have you followed these steps exactly?... including examining Appendix D for any errata, workarounds or adjustments? 6. Alvaro wrote "Look the patches on the nV Forums. (especially for the kernel 2.6.16)". Q: More a comment than a question: I don't know what patches Alvaro is referring to or exactly where the nV forums are, but I think it's worth some time investigating. If you *did* investigate, please elucidate. :-) OK, I think that's enough for now. I'm really looking forward to learning how thoroughly you studied all this documentation! ;-) regards, Carl