On Tuesday 03 February 2004 03.56, Tom Allison wrote:
I'm probably missing a long discussion as I just subscribed to the list:
(I was out on an adventure trying different distros and broke my mail)
However, I'm kind of stuck on one element of the NVIDIA video card problem:
According to ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/nvidia-installer-H OWTO I should download kernel sources and the like to install the driver.
That didn't work at all.
Why not? Did you download the correct kernel sources, the kernel-source.rpm corresponding to your kernel version? Did you prepare the sources with cd /usr/src/linux make mrproper make cloneconfig make dep before running the nvidia installer?
Then I hit the SuSE database and found another entry where you just manually select the fetchnvidia driver package and reboot (I never heard of rebooting a Linux box, but OK)
No need to reboot, it's just to save newbies the experience of going to text mode. The instructions are seriously confused. For example, some instructions say you should go to runlevel 3, while all that's really needed is to stop X. Oh well, all roads lead to Rome I guess
Now, how do I verify if I really do have 3D support?
glxinfo|grep "direct rendering" It should say Yes You may have to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and change Driver from "nv" to "nvidia" in the Device section