Creative 3D Blaster GeForce2 MX graphics card
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:23:42 +0200 From: Des Aubery <daubery@mweb.co.za> Message-id: <3A1C395E.5F3B4626@mweb.co.za> Subject: Creative 3D Blaster GeForce2 MX graphics card Hi all, Can anyone assist me to set this card up on a new machine, I have just bought in? I guess that this card is so new that neither Sax, nor Sax2 manage to recognise it... Any assistance would be greatly appreciated... -- Best regards, Des Aubery... _________________________ ^^^^^ ---> East London ^^^^^ ---> Advanced Automotive... E.Cape, 5257 ^^^^^ ---> Heat-Transfer South Africa ^^^^^ ---> CFD email: daubery@mweb.co.za ^^^^^ ---> FEA ______________________________^^^^^ --->
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 10:10:20 +0100 From: Lenz Grimmer <grimmer@suse.de> Message-ID: <20001123101020.C16596@suse.de> Subject: Re: [SLE] Creative 3D Blaster GeForce2 MX graphics card Hi, On Wed, Nov 22, Des Aubery wrote:
Can anyone assist me to set this card up on a new machine, I have just bought in?
I guess that this card is so new that neither Sax, nor Sax2 manage to recognise it...
Yes, this card is newer than SaX2's hardware detection library. However, you can trick it to configure it anyway. Start it with the following parameter: ax2 -m 0=nvidia This will force it to use the nvidia driver on the first head. In addition you should add the following option to /etc/modules.conf: options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 And you should update nv_glx.rpm and nvdriver.rpm from ftp.suse.com. Good luck! LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany To publish is to appear in public with your pants down.
Message-ID: <3A1CE4E3.7ECE4509@cfl.rr.com> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 04:35:31 -0500 From: Mark Hounschell <dmarkh@cfl.rr.com> Subject: Re: [SLE] Creative 3D Blaster GeForce2 MX graphics card Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 22, Des Aubery wrote:
Can anyone assist me to set this card up on a new machine, I have just bought in?
I guess that this card is so new that neither Sax, nor Sax2 manage to recognise it...
Yes, this card is newer than SaX2's hardware detection library. However, you can trick it to configure it anyway. Start it with the following parameter:
sax2 -m 0=nvidia
This will force it to use the nvidia driver on the first head. In addition you should add the following option to /etc/modules.conf:
options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1
And you should update nv_glx.rpm and nvdriver.rpm from ftp.suse.com.
Good luck!
LenZ --
What exactly are nv_glx.rpm and nvdriver.rpm? Are these SuSE beautified NVIDIA kernel and GLX drivers from NVIDIA for X4.0.1/SuSE? Do these provide the same 3d hardware accelleration as the stuff on NVIDIA's web site?? -- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:07:31 +0100 (CET) From: Lenz Grimmer <grimmer@suse.de> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0011231105420.17232-100000@wiles.suse.de> Subject: Re: [SLE] Creative 3D Blaster GeForce2 MX graphics card Hi, On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Mark Hounschell wrote:
What exactly are nv_glx.rpm and nvdriver.rpm? Are these SuSE beautified NVIDIA kernel and GLX drivers from NVIDIA for X4.0.1/SuSE? Do these provide the same 3d hardware accelleration as the stuff on NVIDIA's web site??
Yes and yes. LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany The ratchet wheel of politics is self-destructive greed.
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 12:38:57 +0200 From: Des Aubery <daubery@mweb.co.za> Message-id: <3A1CF3C1.9CDBD667@mweb.co.za> Subject: Re: [SLE] Creative 3D Blaster GeForce2 MX graphics card Hi Lenz, I have located nv_glx.rpm under SuSE 7.0 downloads - but where do I find nvdriver.rpm ??? Best regards, <p>Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 22, Des Aubery wrote:
Can anyone assist me to set this card up on a new machine, I have just bought in?
I guess that this card is so new that neither Sax, nor Sax2 manage to recognise it...
Yes, this card is newer than SaX2's hardware detection library. However, you can trick it to configure it anyway. Start it with the following parameter:
sax2 -m 0=nvidia
This will force it to use the nvidia driver on the first head. In addition you should add the following option to /etc/modules.conf:
options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1
And you should update nv_glx.rpm and nvdriver.rpm from ftp.suse.com.
Good luck!
LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany To publish is to appear in public with your pants down.
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 12:07:13 +0100 (CET) From: Lenz Grimmer <grimmer@suse.de> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0011231206040.4822-100000@wiles.suse.de> Subject: Re: [SLE] Creative 3D Blaster GeForce2 MX graphics card Hi, On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Des Aubery wrote:
I have located nv_glx.rpm under SuSE 7.0 downloads - but where do I find nvdriver.rpm ???
Sorry, I should have mentioned it in my first mail. They are both very well hidden in here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/X/XFree86/XFree86-4.0.1-SuSE/suse70/nvidia Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany The ratchet wheel of politics is self-destructive greed.
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 13:18:40 +0200 From: Des Aubery <daubery@mweb.co.za> Message-id: <3A1CFD10.5D3D0EA6@mweb.co.za> Subject: Re: [SLE] Creative 3D Blaster GeForce2 MX graphics card Hi Lenz, Thanks ... :-)) <p>Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Des Aubery wrote:
I have located nv_glx.rpm under SuSE 7.0 downloads - but where do I find nvdriver.rpm ???
Sorry, I should have mentioned it in my first mail. They are both very well hidden in here:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/X/XFree86/XFree86-4.0.1-SuSE/suse70/nvidia
Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany The ratchet wheel of politics is self-destructive greed.
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 13:17:38 +0200 From: Des Aubery <daubery@mweb.co.za> Message-id: <3A1CFCD2.17225A29@mweb.co.za> Subject: Re: [SLE] Creative 3D Blaster GeForce2 MX graphics card Hi Lenz, Thanks for your prompt reply, and technical advice. So far, I managed to get framebuffer to work, but I am finding difficulty with the lilo.conf vga=791 being 'seen' by the kernel - I even tried vga=ask as a lilo paprameter - but somehow, this does not get used by the kernel. I have seen this before on my laptop, and it then suddebly worked when I had to add another parameter - strange... I will try your solution today, and feed back... Thanks again - you guys at SuSE are really great. This is one of the reasons .why I continue to support SuSE - I really am inpressed with all the technical background work you folk put in. My experiences with Redhat 6.1 was not too good... :-(( <p>Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 22, Des Aubery wrote:
Can anyone assist me to set this card up on a new machine, I have just bought in?
I guess that this card is so new that neither Sax, nor Sax2 manage to recognise it...
Yes, this card is newer than SaX2's hardware detection library. However, you can trick it to configure it anyway. Start it with the following parameter:
sax2 -m 0=nvidia
This will force it to use the nvidia driver on the first head. In addition you should add the following option to /etc/modules.conf:
options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1
And you should update nv_glx.rpm and nvdriver.rpm from ftp.suse.com.
Good luck!
LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany To publish is to appear in public with your pants down.
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-- Best regards, Des Aubery... _________________________ ^^^^^ ---> East London ^^^^^ ---> Advanced Automotive... E.Cape, 5257 ^^^^^ ---> Heat-Transfer South Africa ^^^^^ ---> CFD email: daubery@mweb.co.za ^^^^^ ---> FEA ______________________________^^^^^ --->
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