On Friday 08 October 2004 14:08, John Pettigrew wrote:
In a previous message, "Gil Weber"
wrote: ** Reply to message from John Pettigrew
on Fri, 8 Oct 2004 17:47:23 +0100 In a previous message, "Gil Weber"
wrote: I then went into Yast2 (hardware) to load the driver. The closest one
serves).
It says "nvidia."
OK. Once you've got sax2 working, don't install the nvidia driver until you're sure everything is working properly with the nv driver. Only change one variable at a time, as far as possible.
All NVIDIA cards are handled by the same "unified" nvidia code avail at the NVIDIA web site. Just choose the right package for the SUSE Linux distro you have. From a driver and SAX2 standpoint nvidia module numbers are a marketing tool to differentiate which and how much capabilities are factory enabled in each individual card. The NVIDIA supplied "Unified Drivers" for linux are object code only (binaries). They have in the past been caught putting routines in their drivers that recognize when a 'test' is being run on the card and reporting very optimistic 'performance stats'. Companies 'close' their source code for many reasons; would you buy a $300 video card if you could 'tweak' the driver source to make a $99 card perform comparably? If you can pick a resolution and color depth that is acceptable, and SAX2 shows your preferred options "ON" then you are done. PeterB -- Using SUSE since 5.2 Loving SUSE 9.1 Pro My Blog: http://vancampen.org/blog --