On Friday 12 July 2002 3:59 am, Steve Sivier wrote:
I'm unable to install SuSE 8 on my system that contains an nvidia mx400 card.
Hmm, I too wonder whether NVidia, for all its supposed wonderfulness, is actually worth the hassle. Certainly, several people here get the drivers to work with no problem, but I tried several runs before I got mine installed (I think). Try the following. 1. Know where you have your nvidia drivers located :-) eg NVIDIA_GLX-1.0.2960.suse80.i386.rpm and NVIDIA_kernel-1.0.2960.suse80.i386.rpm 2. Reboot your PC, and at the boot menu, add 3 after the "linux" on the bottom line. 3. Login as root and change to the driver location. 4. Run rpm -Uvh on both rpms. 5. Run sax2, and answer yes to the question about 3D. After stuttering a bit, you should get an NVidia logo, and then a blue background on the screen, and the Sax2 app. 6. Select Properties and go through the screens. 7. Logout as root, and login as your normal user. 8. Run startx. If all is well, you should have a running server. However, if it doesn't work, I don't think I can help you much more! I had absolutely no luck with NVidia running Sax2 from inside KDE. It runs alright, but then it does funky things, including lockups, to your screen. Moroever, if the above does work, you must *not* use Sax2 in KDE to make changes to your setup - it will undo everything and you get lockup heaven again. As regards your partition issues, I did also have a tussle doing a reinstall of 7.3 over 7.2, but trying to use the partitions (eg /usr/local/games) I had set up there. It did eventually work, but there are a few loose ends about, whcih I can live with until I do a complete reinstall of 8.0 once I've tested it more. If it's at all possible to backup your data and recreate all the partitions from scratch in 8.0, that might be the easiest thing to do. Best wishes Kevin