On Wednesday 10 August 2005 8:48 am, Gil Weber wrote:
I just had another thought on this craziness with my video cards.
In one of the earlier postings I mentioned that I could not find any evidence that the NVidia driver had been loaded even though I had gotten the driver using the Yast on-line update. I was surprised that this generated so little response given the number of folks who have contributed to this thread. <snip> Now, is that something we should review again and reconsider?
The system has to detect the video card to load the appropriate driver. You don't see the specific video drivers listed because the system doesn't detect the video card. You see the generic video drivers because that's all it can use. Once the system detects the video card then the driver should get loaded.
Another thing.... I do not know enough about hardware to know if the 2nd card I tried uses NVidia drivers. (Sorry if this is a stupid question.) If the 2nd card did not require the NVidia driver then we have evidence of two different kinds (chipsets) of PCI video cards not working.
It doesn't. But same problem: system doesn't detect video card.
I reinstalled 9.3 last night (another absolutely clean install). Should I try to download the NVidia driver again and see if this time it actually gets installed? NO. Don't bother until you get past the hardware conflict. And if yes, which file do I check to confirm that it's really installed? Won't be an issue once the hardware is detected properly.
Thx! Gil
Stan