On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 01:40:31 Bob Williams wrote:
On Saturday 06 Mar 2010 13:18:55 Andre Truter wrote:
The 7600 uses the G02 driver. The GO 7600 uses the older G01 driver.
I had this same sort of issue with my laptop. Go into yast, uninstall Nvidia driver G02, and install G01.
Thanks for the suggestion, but that driver did the same as the G02 driver. Looks like I'm stuck with the 'nv' driver. Oh, well :)
I have not followed the whole thread from the beginning, but I have a Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT card and I use the proprietary without any problems.
lspci: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a1)
vitalstatistix:~ # rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia nvidia-settings-190.53-1.pm.1.1.x86_64 x11-video-nvidiaG02-190.53-9.1.x86_64 nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-190.53_2.6.31.5_0.1-8.1.x86_64 nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-default-190.53_2.6.31.5_0.1-8.1.x86_64
Thank you. It's good to know that others have got this working, but as I said earlier, I have tried this driver, and the G01 version without any success. I'm beginning to think that this machine is a bit special. It is made by Toshiba, and was sold as a full featured media centre, with HDTV, an onboard sound amplifier, and running a Toshiba'd version of Windows Media Centre.
Bob
Bob, I have found that in some cases I've had to build both the kernel and the nvidia driver from sources to get them working (usually if the kernel and the drivers were built with different versions of gcc). I agree that in this case if you've used both the kernel and the proprietary driver from official or build-service repositories that shouldn't be an issue but it might be worth a try. What kernel version are you running? That can be important too - the nvidia opensuse drivers in the nvidia repositories all seem to be built against kernel 2.6.31-5, and will the kernel module will only load if the version matches. If you're running a later kernel you'll have to build the drivers against your running kernel (and to do that you'll need to have the kernel sources installed and prep'd). After installing the proprietary drivers, once you've got the proprietary drivers installed, try running lsmod | grep 'nv' and see if the nvidia kernel module is actually loaded. If it is, there may be another issue that I tripped over on my desktop and laptop at different times. When you get dumped back to the console after entering runlevel 5, try logging on as root and running startx. If that works, the problem is with the display manager config, not the graphics driver. I fixed it on mine by opening the sysconfig editor in Yast, changing the display manager from kdm4 to kdm and resaving it. Don't ask me why it fixed it, I have no idea. But it did. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org