I've had the same issues lately with 8.0 and the newest nVidia drivers.
4 of my co-workers machines just puke on these binary only drivers. I
walked into work on Thursday when to startx and behold...*death*. X
wouldn't start..I hadn't changed anything accept that I notices when I
did apt-get upgrade I got a new xf86tools pkgs. I reverted to the older
pkg and it still puked. At this point I've said screw nVidia both at
home and at work. I went out and bought an ATI Radeon 7500 for work
because it's preformed so well at home. Brought it back to work..and 10
minutes later..DRI+GLX worked at a res of 1600X1200..*sweet* :)
There is something cockeyed with the new driver and SuSE's X updates.
* Z_God (zeldario@wanadoo.nl) [020825 03:10]:
::Are you sure you have the driver from NVidia installed?
::If not, you can install it with YOU.
::
::Op zondag 25 augustus 2002 10:24, schreef suse:
::> Subject: NVidia +Sax2 +GLX - Cannot enable 3D
::> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 00:18:17 +0100
::> From: SuSE