On Sunday 21 May 2006 11:26 am, Basil Chupin wrote:
You need to alter the "nv" to "nvidia" (without the quotes) under the Section "Device" in xorg.conf.
I did this.
But once you install the driver from nVidia you will be asked if you want to run sax2 and when you answer YES the xorg.conf file is automatically altered to the above.
This is the first time I've not been able to install the driver successfully. Normally just upgrading it in YOU works. But this time it doesn't show installed. I've been using SuSE since early 8 releases with nvidia cards. I've installed the driver both through YOU and manually compiling it. Never had any problems.
I assume that you know what you need to do to be able to have it compiled? Namely-
* CTRL-ALT-F3 and login as root,
* type in telinit 3 <Enter>,
* login as root, then enter the directory where you have the nVidia run file sitting,
* then sh NVIDIA.......run and answer the prompts, and the driver will be compiled,
* the last question you will be asked is if you want to run sax2 to alter xorg.conf -- answer YES and the job is done,
* finally type in telinit 5 and you will be taken back to the normal desktop environment from where you started after you booted into SuSE. Here you may go fiddling with the screen settings by using Personal Settings and/or the Yast2 utilities.
I've installed the kernel-source and all the devel packages. I've tty'd into tty1 and init 3 and then tried to compile the new kernel with sh NVIDIA-......run --kernel-source-path /usr/src/linux-2.6.13-15/ It goes through and starts to compile but in reading the error logs it looks like the latest nvidia driver doesn't support my video card. I have to get a lagacy driver: WARNING: The NVIDIA GeForce2 Ti GPU installed in this system is supported through the NVIDIA legacy Linux graphics drivers. Please visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html for more information. The 1.0-8756 NVIDIA Linux graphics driver will ignore this GPU. So I think that this may be the cause of all my problems in getting the nvidia drivers. Which will hopefully solve my possitioning problem :) It's interesting that they would drop support for older video cards in newer drivers. But will see. So now to figure out what lagacy driver to get *sigh* -- Regards, Shawn Holland