Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:

I've been having a devil of a time getting nVIDIA to work on my SuSE 8.1 system. Both NVIDIA_kernel and NVIDIA_GLX install without any problems, but when I run startx the screen goes dark and the only recovery seems to be to reboot.

Here's a section of the output from 3Ddiag:

Verifying 3D configuration based on XFree86 4 for 3D board "nVidia Corporation GeForce2 GTS (10de@0150)": Tests for package "NVIDIA_GLX": package ... done. package files ... done. Tests for package "NVIDIA_kernel": package ... done. package files ... done. Tests for correct OpenGL libraries/GLX extensions: Symbolic Links ... failed!

I suspect this may be the problem. What are the proper symbolic links?

Thanks in advance

Did you run 'SuSEconfig' after installing the drivers? -- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 April 2003 07:32 am, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:

I've been having a devil of a time getting nVIDIA to work on my SuSE 8.1 system. Both NVIDIA_kernel and NVIDIA_GLX install without any problems, but when I run startx the screen goes dark and the only recovery seems to be to reboot.

Here's a section of the output from 3Ddiag:

Verifying 3D configuration based on XFree86 4 for 3D board "nVidia Corporation GeForce2 GTS (10de@0150)": Tests for package "NVIDIA_GLX": package ... done. package files ... done. Tests for package "NVIDIA_kernel": package ... done. package files ... done. Tests for correct OpenGL libraries/GLX extensions: Symbolic Links ... failed!

I suspect this may be the problem. What are the proper symbolic links?

Thanks in advance

Here is a list of the lilbGL in /usr/lib that I have on my system. See if yours resembles this: crrey@Crusher-1:~> la /usr/lib/libGL* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2003-04-01 00:38 /usr/lib/libGL.so - -> libGL.so.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2003-04-01 00:38 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> GL/libGL.so.1.0.4349.nv_glx - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4412898 2002-09-10 10:57 /usr/lib/libGLU.a - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 780 2002-09-10 10:57 /usr/lib/libGLU.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2003-04-01 18:42 /usr/lib/libGLU.so - -> libGLU.so.1.3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2003-04-01 18:40 /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1 -> libGLU.so.1.3 - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 680548 2002-09-10 10:58 /usr/lib/libGLU.so.1.3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2003-04-01 00:38 /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1 -> libGLcore.so.1.0.4349 - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4897592 2003-03-28 03:49 /usr/lib/libGLcore.so.1.0.4349 Also, in the /usr/share/doc somewhere there's the NVIDIA readme that has some other info as to how to check the symlinks and similar for the driver config. Another thing to consider is, by my experience, That if you have kernel problems when upgrading from an earlier version to the most current version, the kernal mod doesn't always get installed correctly, One thing that many have done (including myself) is to use the tar.gz for the kernal and rpm the GLX drivers. The README for nvidia has advice about methods for getting this done as well. Lastly, I have noticed that often times if the drivers, kernel mods, and symlinks are setup right, there's still issues related to the way the monitor and the vid card interact. I have often had to reconfig the monitor settings after upgrading, especially of late. This might be the problem with a black screen. It has somthing to do with the monitor timings in regards to both timing modes and V/H refresh rates. HTH. Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+naJG7WVLiDrqeksRAhiuAKC3xwowAOBeiczdrBZrjyGRFXTYWACfWXo5 6M1hUPXJaVdHarZ4SRua97o= =3sxd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----