On Oct 19, 06 22:41:21 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
Today, I thought I'd upgrade the video driver, which is exceptionally easy with SUSE, yes? I switched on, it noticed new hardware, asked me to confirm the nv driver, I said OK, everything still fine. So then I go into YOU and ask for the nvidia driver. It downloads and everything is fine up until it tries to use it!
Then the screen goes dark. Not black but a dark marbled pattern through which text is just about visible. The screen is also obviously low-res. So I switch to a terminal (CTRL-ALT-1) and the screen is darker: unusable.
Hm. This sounds strange. I heard something similar before, but I assumed this fixed...
I reboot and select 'failsafe'. Hah! It says:
... PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Via IRQ fixup
and hangs! So much for failsafe.
Yes. It fails safe ;-) Seems like your machine doesn't like to be booted w/o ACPI. Strange, though.
I reboot and let it default to normal. The boot sequence looks just like it always does until it starts X. Then it goes dark swirling patterns again. This time I can see the prompt in CTRL-ALT-1. I copy the original (non-nvidia, non-nv) xorg.conf back - lucky I saved it?! I reboot again.
In any way, you can always boot into runlevel 3 (just enter '3' on the boot prompt before pressing enter), and no Xserver will be started.
And here I am. The colours and brightness are normal. It's running in my normal 1280x1024 BUT what's visible on screen is not the whole desktop. What's visible appears to be 1150x1000.
Ok, that's a different issue. For the binary driver especially important is the driver version (cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version). If this is older than 8xxx, you probably have to download a newer driver from NVidia and install it yourself. The only thing you absolutely need for that are the kernel sources (don't worry, you don't have to touch them) and gcc (which is probably already installed). I assume that we do not support the 6200 for SL9.3 ourself, as the hardware is pretty new, and 9.3 pretty old. That's why probably there hasn't been an updated driver for 9.3 with working support for the 6200. The same goes for the nv driver, it is probably too old to work correctly with the 6200. But you can try to use xvidtune to move the displayed screen pane. Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <mhopf@suse.de> __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ mat@mshopf.de Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ labs www.mshopf.de