Hi, I was reading the SuSE-AMD64 archives for November and noticed that at least one person reported success getting an Nvidia GeForce card to work with the Tyan S2885 board and Nvidia's drivers under Suse 9.0. I've been having some trouble with a GeForce FX5200 on the same board with Suse 9.0 Pro and Nvidia's 1.0.4499 drivers, and I was wondering if perhaps there was some step I'd missed in the configuration. I'd would really appreciate it if anyone could offer some insight into the problem. To summarize the steps I took: (1) Installed Suse 9.0 Professional. (2) Downloaded Andreas Jager's -139 (tried -143 as well) kernel source. (3) Recompiled the -139 kernel with agpgart as a module rather than built-in. (4) Dowloaded the Nvidia x86_64 1.0.4499 kernel and GL tarballs. (5) Unpacked the kernel and GL tarballs, and patched the kernel with the Suse Nvidia patch (-mno-red-zone, etc.) (6) Compiled/installed Nvidia kernel module(s), then GL module(s) (7) Edited XF86Config file to load "nvidia" driver rather than "nv", (same as "switch2nvidia") and commented out DRI bits. With the various settings of "NvAGP" I get: NvAGP Results ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 1 GL app -> slow (PCI), but still ~ 2500 fps with glxgears >1 GL app -> very slow, but varying. Usually seems to freeze up within a couple of seconds, then come out of the freeze after a while. After coming out of the freeze, the GL apps run slowly, and periodically slow down to almost a standstill for a second or two. 1 X fails to load, garbage on the screen, have to reboot. 2 pretty much the same as with "NvAGP" "0" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I can provide relevant sections of the XFree86.0.log and XF86Config files if they would be helpful. I don't see any obvious problems in the log file, unfortunately. Supposedly, AGP 8X gets set, Direct Rendering is enabled, and the graphics mode is successfully initialized, even with "NvAGP" "1". This is obviously not borne out by what's on the screen. Again, any suggestions as to the nature of the problem would be appreciated. Justin Thiessen ------------- jthiessen@penguincomputing.com PENGUIN COMPUTING www.penguincomputing.com