1. I installed the NDIVIA driver but it interferes with the generic one already installed (rivafb). I have tried disabling in the GRUB using video=rivafb:off but this hasn't fixed the problem. I don't know how to remove modules yet...
rmmod rivafb
2. The system seizes up when I leave it alone for a while. My guess is that the power management code crashes when it tries to switch the computer into sleep mode though do not truly know.
The default SUSE install uses the frame buffer to create a "terminal" (the blue border and small fonts during boot). Using the frame buffer interferes with the Nvidia driver, and from my experience, causes the system to lock up. Typically, after some amount of time, the screen is blank, and you can't get any response from the machine, even over the network. You end up having to power the machnine off to reboot. Removing the frame buffer options on the grub boot line seems to clear this up. Delete the vga=xxx Desktop, etc options to get just a standard terminal on boot... My boot line in /boot/grub/menu.lst looks like this... title Linux kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 hdc=ide-scsi hdclun=0 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd
3. I have two monitors and want to use them in dual head mode but YaST won't allow it - saying I do not have two graphics cards or the right adapter. This is probably related to not having the right driver running the graphics system but again do not know.
In your /etc/X11/XF86Config file...
Section "Device"
Identifier "NV AGP"
VendorName "Nvidia"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "5:0:0"
Option "TwinView" "on"
Option "UseEdidFreqs" "on"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-121"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "48-160"
Option "MetaModes"
"1920x1200,1920x1200;1600x1200,1600x1200;1680x1050,1680x1050;1280x1024,1280x1024"
EndSection
The TwinView option allows you to use both the HD15 and DVI port to drive 2
heads from a single card....
Option "TwinView" "on"
Make sure the BusID number matches where your video card is installed. To
find out, use the lspci command, and look for the nVidia controller...
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device
0333 (rev a1)
The driver line ensures that XFree loads the nvidia driver...
Driver "nvidia"
I had not been using Xinerama in conjunction with Twinview, but I was
having some problems running an OpenGL program on a Sun with the display
set back to the Opteron. If I only had 1 monitor hooked up, the OpenGL
drawing area displayed fine, but with 2 monitors, the OpenGL drawing area
was blank. Turning on Xinerama seemed to fix that ...
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout[all]"
InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
Option "Xinerama" "on"
Screen "Screen[0]"
EndSection
Kevin Gassiot
Advanced Systems Group
Visualization Systems Support
Veritas DGC
10300 Town Park Dr.
Houston, Texas 77072
832-351-8978
kevin_gassiot@veritasdgc.com
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