The problem is that nvidia only provide a closed binary driver, making it very difficult to debug. I guess your XF86Config looks something like: Section "Device" BoardName "GeForce DDR" BusID "1:0:0" Driver "nvidia" Identifier "Device[0]" #Option "NvAGP" "0" # disable agp #Option "NvAGP" "1" # use nvidia agp #Option "NvAGP" "2" # use agpgart Option "NvAGP" "2" # try 2 than 1 Option "NoLogo" VendorName "NVidia" EndSection Try using the different Option settings. If you look in /usr/lib/GL and type "ls -l" do you see a link from libGL.so.1.0.2880.nv_glx to libGL.so ? if you bring up a shell and type "gears" do you see any error messages when the window opens? do the gears spin incredibly quickly or are the quite slow? theres a command to tell the fps but i cant remember it. the main thing is to try the different NvAGP, it depends on which motherboard and graphics card you have as to whether 1 or 2 works. if running gears (or armagetron) in a terminal provides any error messages, cut and paste them pls, might help. Though i haven't used one in linux, aparantly there is a good opensource ati driver for xfree86 which supports the newer ati radeon 8500s, though it might not support all the tv out, etc. Ewan On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 19:14, Rodd Ahrenstorff wrote:
What exactly is the problem with Nvidia cards (in my case: Diamond Viper V770 32MB) and Linux. I have seen only one distro out of the 4 I tested get it right (believe it or not, it was Lycoris...they made an rpm that properly configured the XF86Config file). When I restarted X in SuSE 8.0 my display was goofed. I was forced to run sax2 and reconfigure. I still don't have everything working on my PC. I modified my XF86Config file to add 'load "glx" and changed 'nv' to 'nvidia'. I can see the Nvidia splash screen and that little console says it's loaded the "NVIDIA NVdriver Kernel Module 1.0-2880". For instance: a little game called 'Armagetron' does not display correctly. The actual 'motorcycle' is not shown, only the 'light trail' and the graphics looked better on my Commodore64. Now on my other PC with onboard video (intel chipset) the game plays and looks wonderful. I may just reinstall to see what happens...
One last question: what would you experienced SuSE users recommend for a decent graphics card. I don't need the most FPS, but something reliable with 3D. Thats all...and thankyou. -- Rodd Ahrenstorff
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