Hi, I updated rpms from NVidia site ( as per readme ) and things are a lot better now. Don' t have the black screen anymore in console mode ( 2.2.18 + 2.4.0 ) This is what I get on my two PCs with gears : - without nvidia glx PIII 800 + geforce DDR : 167 FPS 2 x PIII 800 + geforce Ultra : 165 FPS - with the command switch2nvidia_glx : PIII 800 + geforce DDR : 1227 FPS 2 x PIII 800 + geforce Ultra : 2175 FPS issued ldconfig and depmod -a System seems more stable now. XF86Config file is +/- same as Ben. Have higher resolution. Well, I feel better now then during the install where my main problem was that modules.conf,- file Cheers, Filip. Le Lundi 5 Mars 2001 18:03, Michael Perry a �crit : Quoting Ben Rosenberg on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 08:52:05AM -0800:
LenZ,
The packages on the site are suppose to be newer versions then the ones that made it onto 7.1, but if you use them as an update it breaks everything...GLX stops working and X gets very cranky. Is there something that can be done to prevent this..such as new packages being put on ftp.suse.com that update the existing packages?
Regards,
* LenZ Grimmer (grimmer@suse.de) [010305 01:52]:
=>But the packages on the nVidia site have been created by us to fit =>SuSE Linux best. =>
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Main thing here is that I have not been able to go back to the "nv" drivers after following the directions on the nvidia website for installing the "updates". Mouse behavior when you return to the "nv" drivers is wierd. I have not been able to track that one down but the mouse appears as a small pixellated block instead of a arrow. Secondarily, the readme on the nvidia site really does not give directions IF you have installed your own kernel. I found you can still rpm the main NVidia GLX driver in but the module will not work. It complains of missing symbols. What is needed there is to grab the latest tarball kernel module and recompile it. There is some quirkiness with the driver itself. It seems to have some kind of interaction with basic Xscreensaver operation. I had some pretty hefty video corruption when Xscreensaver in daemon mode. Remove xscreensaver from .xinitrc and it goes away completely. My other system did much better. It has a stock suse 2.2.18 kernel on it. The rpms did well and I did not see any problems. I enabled GLx in the XF86Config file and it works fine.
Can something be done to update the readme file that is on nvidia's website?