I boot into run level 3 then I run sax2 as toot to setup the screen resolution and monitor. It detects the Nvidia video card. After exiting sax2, I run switch2nvidia as root or edit the xorg.conf file manaualy and change the "nv" to "nvidia". I exit root logon and logon as myself, then run startx to check everything out. Everything works fine then and the next time I reboot, a let it run automatically to run level 5. Art Gil Weber wrote:
** Reply to message from BandiPat
on Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:13:23 -0400 Lee wrote:
Gil, Usually the onboard is the AGP, if there is no slot available and many of the settings on different motherboards in the BIOS reflect that. How are you trying to configure the cards/monitor? If from KDE, then don't. Drop down to your terminal, ctrl-alt-F1, login as root, init 3 and sax2 -l
That will put in text mode and the -l will give you a fresh low res initial screen. You might also try sax2 -r first to make it reread the hardware and see if things setup from there. If I were you, I think I would remove the old xorg.conf file/s first in case something is wrong from your previous attempts.
Once thru with sax2 and back at the prompt do: init 5 to get back to your login screen. Whether the cards ran perfectly in Knoppix or not doesn't help you much here. If you are going to run Knoppix, then fine, you know they'll work, but I assume you intend to run SuSE, so that's where you should concentrate your attention.
regards, Lee
Lee, for the past 3 days that's what I've been doing. sax2 -l -m 0=nv over and over but it never worked. I still got the same error message and never got sax2 to run. Did not matter which slot the video card was in. Did no matter which PCI video card I used. Same error. :o(
I did this from the screen where it says the system is going to load SuSE, I typed "3" and pressed enter. Did the command above and it failed.
Check the messages on the list -- you'll see at least a dozen, maybe 18 all about my attempts to get sax running other than through KDE.
Gil