On Wednesday 26 December 2007 15:51, Roger Dedrick wrote:
I expected to someone else post a message about this but maybe I am alone with this problem?
I had been running 10.3 with a GeForce 7300GT video card with great success. A few days ago the updater applet included updated nvidia drivers in the list of available updates. After the update compiz started acting weird. I tried to restart the xserver but could not get it to start. I reset the video with Yast. I tried re installing the one click nvidia drivers but if I run the commands to run Compiz the xserver would run.
I have a GeForce 7300-based card and applied this update, too. When the update tray applet notifies me of available updates, I always run YaST and use the Online Update module rather than install via the tray applet. Immediately after installing the new driver packages (there were two), glxgears bombed, but I assumed that was library mismatch. I logged out (in order to effect a restart of the X server and the whole X subsystem). It seemed to take a long time to get the NVIDIA driver screen (which made me nervous), but it eventually showed up and I've had not problems since then. The only programs I use with regularity that use 3D are Google Earth and Second Life. Both of these seem to work fine. Glxgears works, too, of course. Occasionally I run Celestia or Stellarium, but I haven't ran since the driver update. I just gave them a quick launch just now, and they, too, seem to work OK.
So after a lot of reading a looking around realizing I am in over my head in understanding this and thinking maybe there is some baggage causing trouble and I would be further ahead (at least time wise) to do a clean install since my home is on another partition. That done I was in the same boat unable to get the drivers working and with a slow desktop and unable to run a few programs without the 3D.
I wonder if those experiencing problems are all compiz users? (I am not.)
I looked around the nvidia site and found drivers dated from Sept. To install them I found that had to install the source files for the kernel first.
I'd stick with drivers vetted, built and distributed by the SuSE people.
... roger
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