How NOT to have problems with XFree4.0.2 glx and nVidia TNT2
For the interested, there is an update to the nvidia drivers in the 7.1 package to be found on nvidias website ( http://www.nvidia.com ) If you install it in textmode while the "Will now boot your computer" dialogue is showing ( in the install phase ) then you can select glx/3D acceleration in the GUI selection, without worrying of crashing your computer. -tosi -- ______ /---------------------------------------\ \ | Þór Sigurðsson | Tor Sigurdsson | t | | Netmaður | Network Specialist | o | |-----------------------------------------| s | | tosi@rhi.hi.is | i | \---------------------------------------/_____/
Tor Sigurdsson wrote:
For the interested, there is an update to the nvidia drivers in the 7.1 package to be found on nvidias website ( http://www.nvidia.com ) If you install it in textmode while the "Will now boot your computer" dialogue is showing ( in the install phase ) then you can select glx/3D acceleration in the GUI selection, without worrying of crashing your computer.
-tosi
Okay, that finally did the trick. I went to the nvidia website: http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html and downloaded the three files: NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769.suse71.i386.rpm NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769.suse71.i386.rpm README.suse71 They are specific to SuSE 7.0 vs. SuSE 7.1, and are toward the bottom of the page, under the Red Hat and Mandrake downloads. I made a short script out of the README file and installed the drivers. Finally, following the directions at the SuSe support site: http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/wengel_glx_nv.html I added the following line to my Modules section of /etc/X11/XF86Config : Load "glx" That came up with no hanging and no error messages. -- "If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith." -- Albert Einstein
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