On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 03:58 -0400, Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas wrote:
A couple of days ago I received my SuSE 9.3 and immediately I tried upgrading my Presario AMD64 notebook from 9.2 to 9.3. Because there were some files which created problems to the upgrade, I decided to do a clean install of 9.3. This laptop has an Nvidia GeForce 440 Go video card, with 64 MB of dedicated video RAM.
After all was said and done, I realized that the newest Nvidia driver does not work very well. After installing it, I get a black screen. I went through many gyrations, but now it seems I have no 3D acceleration at all. Trying to run the test program glxgears, I get the following error:
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0" glxgears: Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual
I am getting the same behavior no matter whether I install the nvidia driver through YAST (by sellecting "Intalled and installable patches," right-clicking, and forcing an update) or the nvidia installer. The end result is a black screen. I am not sure what I have done thus far to get the video working, albeit suboptimally. And I don't remember which version of the nvidia driver I had with SuSE 9.2. My resolution is 1680×1050.
I'm having the same problem. I installed on a new laptop and so I assumed it was a hardware issue. But I have the same card as you except in a HP Pavilion zv5000. Same resolution too. I had just settled to go without 3D (not much of a gamer). But now that I know it's a driver/software issue rather than a hardware incompatibility, I can help the powers that be with any testing or debugging. Just let me know what needs to be done to get this fixed? -Dan