Dave Plater wrote:
Lew Wolfgang wrote:
Hi Folks,
I'm trying to install 11.0/KDE3.5 on a new Toshiba Satellite X205-SLi6 laptop. Things went fairly smoothly, I downloaded and installed the first round of on-line updates.
But then I tried to install the proprietary nvidia driver for the embedded NVidia GeForce 8600M GT. The module compile and install seems to go well, but when I "sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia" I get the following:
SaX: ups lost card during probing... abort SaX: something went wrong while X was called with -probeonly SaX: try to call 'sax2 -p' and select a single device ?
When I run sax2 -p I get:
Chip: 0 is -> Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT 09:00:0 0x10de 0x0407 AGP nv Chip: 1 is -> Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT 10:00:0 0x10de 0x0407 AGP nv
This seems rather odd, there's only one graphics subsystem, I think. The BIOS is totally mute on the subject. I tried both the current and beta Nvidia drivers, 173.14.12 and 177.67, but both behave the same.
I've never had any success with sax and nvidia, you should use /usr/bin/nvidia-settings to configure the card.
Hi Dave, I tried nvidia-settings and noticed that it too thought there are two GPU's. Maybe there are two? At any rate, I fiddled around with Sax2 some more and finally got the following to work: sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia -c 1 This selects chip "1", which is the one nvidia-settings said was the active. Now, sax2 when invoked from yast also works. Interesting, I guess this Satellite actually has two GPU's. Now I wonder if the second is available for general use? Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org