Chris Forzetting wrote:
hi all ~
I have an HP Pavillion dv6105us laptop, AMD Turion64, with a GeForce Go 6150, dual booting with Media Center and SuSE 10.1.
Tired of no GL or 3D support in the dummy suse drivers, I have tried three different methods to install the real drivers, and they all caused the same problem. I have tried: YAST, 'tiny-nvidia-installer', and a direct rpm run, following the howto that the nvidia site points to, with the same result. I made sure I was in runlevel 3. Each time I installed the drivers, the install seemed to go without a hitch, no errors or crfashes, but after rebooting, X tries to start, and all I get is a blank screen. Crashing X shows an error about no screens being available. I don't know enough to directly configure the X server, and sax won't load. I'm going to image the disk before trying it again, since I have had to reinstall each time (the newbie curse). Any help would be appreciated.
I have had better luck with nvidia's program nvidia-xconfig (see http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/1.0-8776/README/chapter-03.h...) than with sax. I run 9.3 and it works fine. But some people are having problems with the nvidia drivers and recent updates of 10.1. Search the list archives for 'nvidia' for more info. HTH, Dave