I've used nVidia with SuSE since 6.1. I've seen various issues over the years. (none of them were show-stoppers) In the last year on a couple of machines, it seems like the most trouble (with instability) once the drivers were installed were 1.) need the patch for 2.6 kernel from minion.de even though running with 2.4 kernel because back-ported things from 2.5 kernel were causing trouble 2.) AGP / timing / speed settings in BIOS. It almost seems that the linux driver(s) can push the hardware right up to the limit (this is a good thing! like a shelby compared to stock...). So if anything is going to fail in hardware, it most likely will happen under linux. Try stepping down the AGP rate in BIOS from 4x to 2x or whatever. Or try using nVidia's AGP instead of agppart (info to do this in readme). I had one board that needed to have the memory bus speed jumpered down on the mobo to make stable. IT WILL WORK! 3.) You should be able to get a stable system. I would stress test my system after changing something by running glxgears at the same time as compiling something big. It would lock up right away if it was going to at all. B-) On Thursday 24 June 2004 05:51 am, rkimber@ntlworld.com wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:24:44 +1200
Joel Wiramu Pauling <aenertia@aenertia.net> wrote:
Ok follow these steps.
Update through Yast to the latest everything (including kernel).... Don't run the yast nvidia driver... It does not work with the latest kernel update aswell as it should.
Once finished.
Goto minion.de
Either grab just this: http://www.sh.nu/download/nvidia/linux-2.6/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-5332-p kg0.run
I eventually got this working, after much experimentation with acpi=off noapic acpi=off noapic pci=noacpi pci=biosirq Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP" in the X config plus some tinkering with font paths
I *think* the real problem was a faulty XF86Config file where some of the font paths didn't point to actual fonts (thanks YAST2, or whatever set these up) - the last message in the log said it could not init certain paths. The nvidia driver seems less tolerant than the nv driver- but not being an expert I may be wrong about this.
However, although it appeared to work, the system was so unstable (crashed when using simple functions on apps via button clicks) that it doesn't seem worth using on my machine, so I've reverted to "nv".
I can't tell whether the solution lies with nvidia, vendors of other hardware I have, suse, or me - but I don't have the knowledge to take it further.
- Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/