-----Original Message----- From: Glenn Pedersen [mailto:glennped@optusnet.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 12:20 AM To: Suse Subject: [SLE] Nvidia and Suse 8.2 Black screen with 3d Hi guys, I am really having trouble getting the Nvidia drivers to work in Suse 8.2 with 3d enabled. I am using a MSI motherboard MS-6738 which does have an on board graphics card but its disabled when a graphics card is plugged into the Agp slot. There is no option in the bios to manually turn the on board gfx card off. I have a Geforce 2 mx400 plugged into the agp slot. I have tried ver 4349, 4363 and 4496 but they all do the same thing. When ever I try to start X after enabling 3d i get a black screen and cant see or do anything. I am able to telnet into my Suse 8.2 box and kill X. If I then run the switch2nv script i can then start X with no problems but as soon as I try switch2nvidia the same thing happens again. Black screen with no response except via telnet. While i was connected to the Suse8.2 box via telnet I grabbed this error message from /var/log/messages Sep 24 11:30:01 linux kernel: 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kerne l Module 1.0-4349 Thu Mar 27 19:00:02 PST 2003 Sep 24 11:30:01 linux insmod: Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB-athlon/ke rnel/drivers/video/nvidia.o will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA Sep 24 11:30:01 linux insmod: See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules Sep 24 11:30:01 linux insmod: Module nvidia loaded, with warnings Sep 24 11:30:03 linux kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann Sep 24 11:30:03 linux kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory : 321M Sep 24 11:30:03 linux kernel: agpgart: Trying generic Via routines for device id : 3116 Sep 24 11:30:03 linux kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd0000000 The second last line has me intrigued. I'm not sure I see what you are referring to? The references to agp are talking about the card that is plugged into the agp slot. I recently upgraded my 8.2 box to a soyo kt400 board and was also having Trouble with the nvidia drivers, there have been many posts in this months archive as well as last month, which gave me a lot of clues as to what to Try, what eventually worked was building a 2.4.22 kernel AND passing the NvAGP=0 option to the card in Sax2, also turning off acpci in the bios seemed to resolve some issue with the new kernel, not sure yet if it really made a difference w/agp tho............everything worked fine on my old tyan mb so I think the problem was the new kt400 agp stuff, the patches that were Done to the agp stuff in 2.4.22 worked, (kernel coders rock!).....unfortunately, after much searching I didn't find any pre-compiled suse kernels, so it will take some work, but read the archives first and see if some of the easier stuff works.......YMMV -don Would that be the drivers trying to drive the onboard gfx card by mistake? or am I barking up the wrong tree here :) Btw the same hardware with Suse 8.0 and Nvidia drivers 3123 work fine with 3d enabled. Any ideas anyone? Cheers , Glenn -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com

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Btw the same hardware with Suse 8.0 and Nvidia drivers 3123 work fine with 3d enabled.

Any ideas anyone?

Cheers , Glenn

I never had to run switch2nvidia.... 1) Download the Nvidia driver 2) Follow install instructions 3) Use SaX2 to enable 3D 4) Restart X To ensure a complete shutdown of X, I do a "init 1" as root, and then "init 5" back. 5) Check XF86Config to make sure the Nvidia driver is listed. IIRC, but the switch script has a bug in it, according to YOU, try getting the new version from YOU. I never had to run switch2NV directly. -- The Meek shall inherit the Earth, for the Brave are among the Stars!