Hey all, Just wondering if anyone here has set up SuSE 8.0 and the Nvidia drivers with a Hercules Prophet graphics board? I have been trying to help a friend via e-mail set up his 3d with this card and can't seem to get it working. I went throught the exact same procedure I do with my nvidia based board and after reboot he get's fatal X server errors. NvDriver is loaded and the packages NVIDIA_GLX and NVIDIA_kernel are both installed..and are the current ones from the NVIDIA site. I also added the "Load "glx" " and changed "nv" to "nvidia" in the XF86Config file. Anything special I have to do to set up this card?..or any known problems setting up this card? Any help would be appreciated since I persuaded him to try SuSE over R.H, I would like to get him properly setup. thanks in advance __ Mark Doucette kranked@oberon.ark.com WinFree and Lovin' it. SuSE Rox Linux! Registered Linux User # 240512 ----////----
Yep I have Hercules Prophet gforce2 mx it was easy 1) Do install, when you get to the bit about choosing a graphics driver, don't select 3d acceleration. 2) When you eventually are installed and run Yast Online Update for the first time, the nvidia drivers are downloaded and installed automatically. Reboot 3) Working 3d nvidia. well it worked for me dids
Hey all,
Just wondering if anyone here has set up SuSE 8.0 and the Nvidia drivers with a Hercules Prophet graphics board?
I have been trying to help a friend via e-mail set up his 3d with this card and can't seem to get it working. I went throught the exact same procedure I do with my nvidia based board and after reboot he get's fatal X server errors. NvDriver is loaded and the packages NVIDIA_GLX and NVIDIA_kernel are both installed..and are the current ones from the NVIDIA site. I also added the "Load "glx" " and changed "nv" to "nvidia" in the XF86Config file.
Anything special I have to do to set up this card?..or any known problems setting up this card? Any help would be appreciated since I persuaded him to try SuSE over R.H, I would like to get him properly setup.
thanks in advance
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Mark Doucette kranked@oberon.ark.com
WinFree and Lovin' it. SuSE Rox Linux! Registered Linux User # 240512
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None of the offered suggestions seemed to make a difference. He still just get's booted back to the command prompt without X after trying to enable 3d. In 8.0 is there something perhaps that has to be done with switch2nvidia that may be different from 7.3? I haven't encountered this personally yet on my boards, but I'm just trying to figure this out. I don't recall even using the switch2nvidia script since 7.2. Cheers -- Mark Doucette kranked@oberon.ark.com WinFree and Lovin' it. SuSE Rox Linux! Registered Linux User # 240512 ----////----
I was able Just Friday to get a Hercules Prophet work on my SuSE 8.0 system. This required a couple of steps, after installing the dummy Packages on the SuSE Distribution for the Nvidia Cards. I downloaded the real packages from the Nvidia Site and installed them using rpm install -force -nodeps. I then could run the drivers without problems if I did not enable 3D acceleration. After running 3Ddiags program I found that if I reduced the color depth to 65K I could run 3D acceleration with out any problems. It did require some hair pulling but it seems to work. Regards PAB -----Original Message----- From: Mark Doucette [mailto:kranked@oberon.ark.com] Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 4:46 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Hercules Prophet None of the offered suggestions seemed to make a difference. He still just get's booted back to the command prompt without X after trying to enable 3d. In 8.0 is there something perhaps that has to be done with switch2nvidia that may be different from 7.3? I haven't encountered this personally yet on my boards, but I'm just trying to figure this out. I don't recall even using the switch2nvidia script since 7.2. Cheers -- Mark Doucette kranked@oberon.ark.com WinFree and Lovin' it. SuSE Rox Linux! Registered Linux User # 240512 ----////---- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com
* Mark Doucette (kranked@oberon.ark.com) [020505 13:44]: :: ::In 8.0 is there something perhaps that has to be done with switch2nvidia that ::may be different from 7.3? I haven't encountered this personally yet on my ::boards, but I'm just trying to figure this out. I don't recall even using the ::switch2nvidia script since 7.2. :: Please ditch the switch2 script and make sure the references to it are gone. You should download the tar.gz file of the nVidia GLX and just decompress it...cd into the directory and type make. This installs nVidia's GLX and makes the symlinks correctly. I found this to be the best way. I haven't had 1 issues with the nVidia kernel module or the GLX. -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. -GC --=====-----=====--
Hello Ben, I hadn't thought to use that script because I knew it wasn't relevant anymore, but as a last resort I got him to try it and it was as well to no avail. It's odd that he, with an nvidia board, and I with an nvidia board are having exactly opposite results. I too have never had a problem with the nvidia drivers, and this time I even just used the made for SusE 8.0 rpms without a hitch..then changed the XF86Config to load glx and use nvidia instead of nv and viola. Unfortunately these exact steps wont give him a running 3d system. He just gets fatal errors about no screens available etc. I wish I could get him to copy those from the console and send them to me ..I'll work on that later today. Also 3Ddiag outputs some failures as well. I've gone through this umpteen times the same way it would work on my nvidia based card and to no avail. Cheers
Please ditch the switch2 script and make sure the references to it are gone. You should download the tar.gz file of the nVidia GLX and just decompress it...cd into the directory and type make. This installs nVidia's GLX and makes the symlinks correctly. I found this to be the best way. I haven't had 1 issues with the nVidia kernel module or the GLX.
-=Ben
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-- Mark Doucette kranked@oberon.ark.com WinFree and Lovin' it. SuSE Rox Linux! Registered Linux User # 240512 ----////----
Did you try "switch2nvidia" logged in as root in run level 3? This is what worked for me. Art -----Original Message----- From: Mark Doucette [mailto:kranked@oberon.ark.com] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 9:42 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Hercules Prophet Hello Ben, I hadn't thought to use that script because I knew it wasn't relevant anymore, but as a last resort I got him to try it and it was as well to no avail. It's odd that he, with an nvidia board, and I with an nvidia board are having exactly opposite results. I too have never had a problem with the nvidia drivers, and this time I even just used the made for SusE 8.0 rpms without a hitch..then changed the XF86Config to load glx and use nvidia instead of nv and viola. Unfortunately these exact steps wont give him a running 3d system. He just gets fatal errors about no screens available etc. I wish I could get him to copy those from the console and send them to me ..I'll work on that later today. Also 3Ddiag outputs some failures as well. I've gone through this umpteen times the same way it would work on my nvidia based card and to no avail. Cheers
Please ditch the switch2 script and make sure the references to it are gone. You should download the tar.gz file of the nVidia GLX and just decompress it...cd into the directory and type make. This installs nVidia's GLX and makes the symlinks correctly. I found this to be the best way. I haven't had 1 issues with the nVidia kernel module or the GLX.
-=Ben
--=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. -GC --=====-----=====--
-- Mark Doucette kranked@oberon.ark.com WinFree and Lovin' it. SuSE Rox Linux! Registered Linux User # 240512 ----////---- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com
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