On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 19:21 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Roger Oberholtzer <roger@opq.se> [03-18-11 18:55]:
I have a Sony VPCF1 laptop that has an Nvidia GeForce GT 425M/PCI/SSE2 chip set. The proprietary Nvidia driver (NVIDIA 260.19.36) loads and runs. But I do not get direct rendering. I do not see messages in the X server log saying it was disabled, but glxinfo says it is disabled, and I cannot get desktop effects. And programs like the LLNL VisIt application run dog slow.
I'm running an NVidia GeForct GT 450 in a new desktop with the 260.19.44 driver version and direct rendering is set. You might try the later version. My desktop is a home build i7-960 with intel DX58S02 mb.
I installed this. Yikes. Now kdeinit4 crashes almost first thing, resulting in a black display. I can get a little window to type commands. I reverted to the original drivers as I had before, but this did not help. Sigh. I saw that the nvidia driver install looked around for what it called conflicting components when it was installed. I don't know what it may have done beside installing the X and kernel drivers. And I guess it may have not been set back by reinstalling the original SUSE components (X and kernel driver). Up to this point, I was a happy 11.4 user. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 SHAW'S PRINCIPAL Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org