Hi; I have a geforce2 GTS card, so I wanted to use the hardware features of
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card. Setup is a nightmare! After downloading the two SuSE RPMs from the Nvidia web site and reading all the articles from the SuSE knowledge portal, I still cannot get any GL apps to work. Well they do work, but only in root. But that then locks up the whole system, needing a hard reboot. When I try to run gears in my user account it returns a segmentation fault. 3Ddiag returns no errors. Can anyone help? Has anyone else tried to install drivers and hardware acceleration for their geforce2 cards. I'm running SuSE 7.2.
Did you try the articles on portal.suse.com? Yes I followed the instructions in several of the nvidia articles (I tried one method, it didn't work so I uninstalled the RPMs and started again with
So, the kernel and GLX are installed....Did you change the XFree86 config file (/etc/X11/XF86Config) to something like this: As you posted your entire config file I assume you were talking about the 'Load "glx" ' Line. Yes, I tried that to no avail (In fact one of
Another thing to try...Did you reboot after installaing the NVidia kernel? Sometimes you need to...Does it just crash on GL apps? Grab the tarballs too, and run make make install on those, sometimes they work better. Yes I'm a regular rebooter (I also run windows 98):-) It crashed on GL apps, but it also seemed to crash on Konqueror. Thanks, I'll try the tarballs (but not tonight, its after midnight here in
StarTux asked the next suggested method). the installation methods I tried (using SaX2 put this line in for me). the UK). ------------------ Darren Harmon http://user.breathemail.net/darren.harmon1/