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Hi, I've just upgraded my Video card drivers (SuSE 8.0 can't apparently handle an Abit Siluro GeForce 2 MX 400) and now I have to edit XF86Config (why is it called that?) only I'm a bit confused as to what to edit. The instructions I have is to look for a line like 'Driver "nv"' or 'Driver "vesa"' and replace it with 'Driver "nvidia"' only I can't find that ... the nearest thing I have found are 'Section "Screen"' bits and there are several of those so I don't know what to edit, replace or delete :-( Any ideas? James C. Rocks Equant Archway House Canary Wharf London E14 9SZ Phone: 0207-5226856 Fax: 0207-5126087 Mobile Phone: 07771-767405 http://www.equant.com
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I am not near my SUSE 8.0 box so here is part of my Redhat /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file: Section "Device" # no known options Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)" #BusID EndSection You said you were trying to edit the XF86Config file, are you sure you are not supposed to to edit the XF86Config-4 file? Are you running XFree 3 or 4? -- ICQ# 55846749 Registered Linux user #191829 A Cherokee Prayer: Oh Great Spirit, Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.
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On Wednesday 29 May 2002 04:20, Dale Kosan wrote:
I am not near my SUSE 8.0 box so here is part of my Redhat /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file:
Section "Device" # no known options Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (generic)"
#BusID EndSection
You said you were trying to edit the XF86Config file, are you sure you are not supposed to to edit the XF86Config-4 file? Are you running XFree 3 or 4?
Here is mine: Section "Device" BoardName "GeForce2 GTS" BusID "1:0:0" Driver "nvidia" Identifier "Device[0]" Screen 0 Option "nvagp" VendorName "NVidia" EndSection And it is /etc/X11/XF86Config The -4 is used on Redhat systems to denote version 4. Matt
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SNIP... Thanks for pointing this out to me, I have only been using Suse for a week and am having trouble switching over from Redhat. Things are sure different! -- ICQ# 55846749 Registered Linux user #191829 A Cherokee Prayer: Oh Great Spirit, Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.
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On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 07:51:57AM -0400, Dale Kosan wrote:
SNIP...
Thanks for pointing this out to me, I have only been using Suse for a week and am having trouble switching over from Redhat. Things are sure different!
SuSE is much more standards based, but there are still quirks in both systems. If 8.0 is your first SuSE version, it should be easier than previous SuSE versions because of the recent switch to /etc/sysconfig. By the way, XF86Config is the correct file name (the XFree project configuration file name), XF86Config-4 is a Red Hat invention so they could have XFree 3.x and 4.x installed at the same time. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net
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On Wednesday 29 May 2002 09:48, James.Rocks@equant.com wrote:
Hi,
I've just upgraded my Video card drivers (SuSE 8.0 can't apparently handle an Abit Siluro GeForce 2 MX 400) and now I have to edit XF86Config (why is it called that?) only I'm a bit confused as to what to edit.
The instructions I have is to look for a line like 'Driver "nv"' or 'Driver "vesa"' and replace it with 'Driver "nvidia"' only I can't find that ... the nearest thing I have found are 'Section "Screen"' bits and there are several of those so I don't know what to edit, replace or delete :-(
You should not have to edit anything. You have root permission on your own PC I hope, and you should read the mail that's sent to root. There is one entry there with the subject SuSEconfig: 3ddiag, you should read that one. If you don't bother, just run "switch2nvidia_glx" as root. regards Jónas
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Dale Kosan
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James.Rocks@equant.com
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Jonas Helgi Palsson
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Keith Winston
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Matthew Johnson