On Thursday 30 October 2003 11:12, LinuxWorld999 wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Miller"
To: Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 11:17 PM Subject: [SLE] 9.0 and nVidia Isn't it nice. A new release of SuSE and you STILL can't get 3D via the supplied driver nor the most current on the nVidia site. I don't know who to blame, but I DO know I'm going to encourage everyone I can to boycot ALL nVidia products!!
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Fred,
After installing SuSE 9, kernel sources were installed and configured using "make cloneconfig" and "make dep". After this, switched to runlevel 3, the Nvidia package numbered 4496 was run and sax2 used to activate 3D. Switched back to run level 5 and logged in.
Yes, this is the correct procedure, but ................ apparently the 4496 driver does not work for everybody ! I can't speak for 9.0, but I had unsolvable problems with the 4496 driver under 8.2. I assume/expect that Fred Miller might have a similar situation. In my experience the 'unsolvable' problems with the 4496 immediately went away after installation of the older 4363 driver (without changing anything else on the system). So : in case you can't get it working, my advice is to install the 4363. For those who want to know, here's what I did to move back to the 4363 : 1. Download the 4363 driver from www.nvidia.com 2. Goto runlevel 3 (or restart in Safe Mode) 3. Do the following : nvidia-installer --uninstall (to remove the 4496) cd /usr/src/linux make cloneconfig && make dep cd << your download directory >> sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run 4. Goto runlevel 5 And .... it'll most probably work all right. --> Please confirm if it does under 9.0. Cheers, -- Jan Elders Nuenen the Netherlands