* Marc Chamberlin
Since you are on 11.3, Xorg should actually work without any xorg.conf. Try removing it and seeing what happens. nvidia> nouveau> nv in the Xorg autodetect so it should still boot up with the proprietary drivers. Thanks Tejas, that was an interesting discovery! I was unaware that
On 1/27/2011 4:40 PM, Tejas Guruswamy wrote: things have changed so much in 11.3, Sax2 and xorg.conf are like old friends to me, been around so long.. So you set me on a new path, and yes removing the xorg.conf file completely works, sorta... While the GUI does come up with the init 5 level, I still don't think the nVidia drivers are working. None of the openGL screensavers run for example, and the nvidia server settings tool still complains that I am not using nVidia drivers.
I did a bit of further investigating and read another thread where someone suggested executing the following and I discovered something interesting that I didn't know about this laptop -
lspci | grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 18) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 330M] (rev a2)
so apparently I have two graphic controllers??? So that raises some questions, do I have a conflict and am I getting a driver loaded for the Intel controller instead of the nVidia controller? How do I find out, and how do I get just the nVidia drivers working?
Marc, Just go into your bios and make sure it's disabled. You will always see the reference to it in lspci as it's querying the ROM chips on the motherboard ... this doesn't mean Linux is trying to load a driver for it. Also, have you done an "lsmod | grep nvidia" to see if the kernel module is even loading? The module is linked to a specific version of the kernel so if there was a kernel update it most likely can't find the module as it's in the /lib/modules directory for the previous kernel. So " find /lib/modules/ -print | grep nvidia " should tell you if there is an existing module (driver) in the correct spot for your current kernel. Ben -- XO Communications Infrastructure Operations St Louis, MO. -- Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org