2. What do you mean by "nVidia Support is still a problem."? As per a recommendation I got in this forum, I was planning on getting an GeForce FX 5950 Ultra. Will this work? What I mean is, will I be able to at least have it recognized by SuSE and get decent graphics? (even I don't get all the features)?
Well, I checked the public nvidia Website again 5 minutes ago, there is still the 1.0-5332 driver that won't run on SuSE 9.1. But as I told you there are new drivers in nVidias release queue, its only a matter of time until they are going public. And this morning I read on the Debian-AMD64 list that there is a page with patches for the old driver. Look here: http://minion.de/nvidia.html
I've been running the nvidia 1.0-5332 driver with suse 9.1 for a few weeks with no problems. Here's the output of dmesg regarding the kernel module loading during bootup: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86_64 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-5332 Fri Jan 9 12:42:32 PST 2004 I simply used Yast2 to install the nvidia driver during an online update. I did no further configuration myself (except adding Option "NoLogo" "on" to get rid of the logo display). I did have a problem at first with random lockups but it turned out to be a bad dimm. It has run smoothly ever since I had the bad dimm replaced. My system is a dual 248 opteron with tyan 2885, 3ware sata raid, lsilogic 320-4x scsi raid, 8gb ddr400 ram, and nvidia 5200. Mark