Tor Sigurdsson wrote:
For the interested, there is an update to the nvidia drivers in the 7.1 package to be found on nvidias website ( http://www.nvidia.com ) If you install it in textmode while the "Will now boot your computer" dialogue is showing ( in the install phase ) then you can select glx/3D acceleration in the GUI selection, without worrying of crashing your computer.
-tosi
Okay, that finally did the trick. I went to the nvidia website: http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html and downloaded the three files: NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769.suse71.i386.rpm NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-769.suse71.i386.rpm README.suse71 They are specific to SuSE 7.0 vs. SuSE 7.1, and are toward the bottom of the page, under the Red Hat and Mandrake downloads. I made a short script out of the README file and installed the drivers. Finally, following the directions at the SuSe support site: http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/wengel_glx_nv.html I added the following line to my Modules section of /etc/X11/XF86Config : Load "glx" That came up with no hanging and no error messages. -- "If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith." -- Albert Einstein