Re: [suse-amd64] nvidia driver don't work for me

Hi Rangi, Thanks for your reply. Doing an Graphics card upgrade on a laptop is going to be tough. Don't think its possible on my laptop.Also, while googling I found that some people had no problems using the lastest nvidia drivers with GeForce 440. This tells me that my GeForce 440 is supported ! May be upgrading the X server and building a new suse kernel will help. -t

From: Rangi Sutton To: tony s Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] nvidia driver don't work for me Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:56:14 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from mail19.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.200]) by mc4-f32.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Sun, 27 Mar 2005 18:58:15 -0800 Received: from [192.168.0.5] (c220-237-72-204.kelvn1.qld.optusnet.com.au [220.237.72.204])by mail19.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j2S2uE5J024062for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:56:14 +1000 X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jEHjJx36Oi8+Z3TmmkSEdPtfpLB7P/ybN8= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: Return-Path: rangi.sutton@optusnet.com.au X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Mar 2005 02:58:16.0025 (UTC) FILETIME=[FCFCE490:01C53341]

tony s wrote:

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Hello

sorry if this is a repeat post, my previous podt did not do thru !

I have a HP zv5000 laptop with WUXGA (1920x1200 - GeForce 440 Go 64) LCD display. My problem is that I cannot get the latest nvidia drivers to work. After installing the driver, vertical lines appear on the screen :-( . Even old drivers don't work. I'm using SUSE9.1 64 version(AMD64). Have tried with FC3 also, still no luck. I have followed all the steps mention in various forums on the net, but the dam drivers don't work.

Hi Tony,

I can't remember the exact details, but I had found my laptop with a GeForce 440 card would no longer work with the newer nvidia drivers. The first version where the drivers no longer support the 440 is also the first version they begin to support the 2.6 kernel. Sorry, I don't know the version number. My solution involved a hardware upgrade.

Probably not what you wanted to hear. I found this through trial and error on one machine only, so I could be wrong.

Good luck, Rangi.