Hi! I've got a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 card because it's supposed to be "Linux compatible". I have SuSe 9.1 and as suggested I first installed the "Download NVIDIA(r) Graphics Driver" patch with YOU and startet sax2. But sax2 only found a "vesa compatible" card: # sax2 -p Chip: 0 is -> VESA Framebuffer Graphics 01:00:0 0x10de 0x0185 AGP fbdev So I tried the 6629-Driver from from the nvidia-homepage, but to no avail. Then I replaced the 'Driver "vesa"' line in /etc/X11/XF86Config with 'Driver "nvidia"' but then kdm and even sax2 came up any more (the system hangs with a black screen, even Ctrl+Alt+Bksp don't work. But when I try Ctrl+Alt+Del a messed up NVIDIA splash screen appears after some time and then the system reboots). I needed to use 'sax2 -l' to be able to start sax2 again. I read the other posts in this list concerning the MX 4000 problems and tried the 6111-driver as Barrie Hill suggested. I even recompiled the Kernel without the RivaFB-module but to no avail. Now I'm running it as a "Vesa-compatible card", wich makes no sense. Maybe someone has still an idea? Help would be highly appreciated. Sincerely David Some datas: wu:~ # uname -a Linux wu 2.6.5-7.111.30-default #2 Thu Jan 27 01:25:26 CET 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux wu:~ # rpm -q XFree86 XFree86-4.3.99.902-43.28 wu:~ # rpm -q XFree86-server-glx XFree86-server-glx-4.3.99.902-40 /var/log/messages when I try to start sax2 and then reboot with Ctrl+Alt+Del after I got a blank screen: Jan 30 21:41:20 wu kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. Jan 30 21:41:20 wu kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-6111 Tue Jul 27 07:55:38 PDT 2004 Jan 30 21:41:21 wu kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. Jan 30 21:41:21 wu kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode Jan 30 21:41:21 wu kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode Jan 30 21:41:21 wu kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. Jan 30 21:41:21 wu kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode Jan 30 21:41:21 wu kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode Jan 30 21:42:11 wu init: Switching to runlevel: 6 Jan 30 21:42:18 wu kernel: nfsd: last server has exited Jan 30 21:42:18 wu kernel: nfsd: unexporting all filesystems Jan 30 21:42:18 wu rpc.mountd: Caught signal 15, un-registering and exiting. Jan 30 21:42:18 wu sshd[2775]: Received signal 15; terminating. Jan 30 21:42:23 wu kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. Jan 30 21:42:23 wu kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating. Jan 30 21:42:24 wu exiting on signal 15 Maybe relevant part of dmesg: Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected SiS 741 chipset agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000 wu:/var/log # tail nvidia-installer.log executing: '/sbin/depmod -aq'... -> done. -> Driver file installation is complete. -> Running post-install sanity check: -> done. -> Sanity check passed. -> Shared memory test passed. -> Installation of the NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 (version: 1.0-6111) is now complete. On SuSE Linux/United Linux please use SaX2 now to enable the NVIDIA driver. If you need more information/log files I can post it or send to you directly.