Basil Chupin wrote:
Brian Berrigan wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
You have hit the nVIDIA Driver Brickwall Syndrome. Even the very latest driver (5336), which is supposed to have fixed all sorts of problems, causes you to hit the Brickwall. Tell us (me) which video card you are using and which version of the kernel (Athlon or non-Athlon)? Depending on your answer, you may have to go back to the #4363 driver (you would uninstall the driver you just installed with 'nvidia-installer --uninstall' and then install the #4363 driver. Cheers.
Thanks for the above info, and i hope it's ok to jump in here ? (newbie2?) I was a pleased Suse 8.0 user until that NVidia stuff hit the fan and ruined it for me. I have kernel 2.4.18_4GB with an AMD 2.4 G CPU on an Asus A7S333 M/Bd, with a GeForce2 MX64L -400 card, and i attempted to do the Suse security upgrade plus the NV driver (my first try -#4363 i think)), without doing enough reading and without killing X, so i ended up with a real mess - no video, no modem, Sax2 crippled etc. Now i've had to go back toWin98se to even get online, despite trying to reinstall Suse 8.0 Personal many times. What a disaster! Elitist bullshit? instead of help?
Personally i feel NVidia should be shot with a ball of their own <scat>, and Suse should never have allowed us newbies to be treated so badly. Changed my plans to buy 8.2 or 9.0 until i see if another distro or an ATI card is the way out for me. If you'd care to enlighten me about this NV card and this AMD cpu, i would certainly like to know more about it. Thanks, BrianB.
See my reply to Tom.
There is nothing wrong with the 4363 driver. I had it installed (on v9.0) until I bought the FX5200 card a few weeks ago. I have it on the computer with the MX440 and on the one with the MX400 (all running v9.0).
If you tried to re-install v8.0 many times without (apparent) success then it is not Suse's fault nor the driver's because the nVidia driver is not installed by Suse - you have to install it as a deliberate exercise; so you are doing somethng wrong to have the installation hassles.
(Re looking for an alternate distro. I've tried them all and believe me Suse is the only one to work with.)
To quote Tylk's Law, "Assumption is the mother of all foul-ups". All the discussion so far re the nVidia driver(s) has been on the assumption that people want to use 3D - as opposed to 2D - after installing the driver(s). The driver(s) cause(s) the problems mentioned if you try and use 3D. However, it/they function OK if you only use 2D. The latest 5336, for example, works perfectly on my other computer with the MX440 using 2D (ie, having "nv" and not "nvidia" in the XF86Config file). Cheers. -- All Scottish food is based on a dare.