Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4498 mails)

[Chris Forzetting <cforzetting@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
> The Thursday 2006-11-02 at 14:03 -0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
>
> >>> also quickly in runlevel 3, /usr/bin/switch2nv
> >>> and no editing necessary.
> >> Sorry, but I have to disagree with both of you on this occasion.
> For two
> >> reasons.
> >>
> >> First, AFAICT, the OP is still trying to install the nvidia driver, not
> >> the nv driver. So I think the instructions you both gave are
> inappropriate.
>
> He said that the nvidia driver did not work, and that he had to reinstall
> the whole system because sax would not start - presumably to uninstall
> the
> commercial nvidia driver and put back the nv open driver and try again.
> Thus, I don't think my advice was incorrect.
>
> Also, Patrick's advice is correct in that situation, but if it weren't,
> there is also the corresponding switch2nvidia script.
>
>
> We were both giving advice about how to undo the not working change to
> nvidia. How to get the commercial driver going will go next when the OP
> replies and we have more info.
>
>
> >> Second, the OP says he has followed the *suse* instructions (as at the
> >> URL above or rather at the equivalent for AMD64) without success. I
> also
> >> had no success that way. I did have success when I followed the
> *nvidia*
> >> instructions and used the *nvidia* installation and configuration tools
> >> instead of the *suse* ones (yast, sax2).
>
> The thing is that the instructions in the nvidia page points SuSE
> users to
> read the link I posted. Those instructions are correct, and give more
> than
> one way to do it.
>
>
Thank you all who posted on this topic.  Unfortunately, trying the
nvidia install script and then the configuration of xgl found on
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/17174.html had no better
results than when I installed the drivers using yast and then
tiny-nvidia-install script.  In all cases, the installation proceeded
without any error messages, but when starting X the screen goes blank. 
the system is still going, because I can type my pw and log in and hear
the startup sound for KDE.

If I kill the X server, there are no "no suitable screens found"
errors.  I did have an "access to your display is denied" error when
entering this command:  sax2 -V 0:1280x800@60 to try to force the video
mode.

I have an nvidia geforce Go 6150 which is not on the supported hardware
list on the nvidia site, though very close models are both up and down a
numeric list.

Thanks to your posts, I can get back to nv without reinstalling, but it
does not look like I will be able to get any real power from this card
under linux.  :(  oh, well...

Thank you for your responses.
> -- 
>
> Chris Forzetting, Tech and Trainer
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