On Friday 13 Aug 2004 05:34, Brian Jonas wrote:
On Thursday 12 August 2004 1:55 pm, Julian Opificius wrote:
Sorry, I came on board half way through a discussion of getting NVidia video working on 9.1.
I've just installed 9.1 on a machine with an FX5500 on it. I cannot see an option for the FX5500, and yast2 suggests VESA at 1024x768, which is certainly not appropriate for my 19" monitor. I've looked at SuSE instructions on NVidia's website, but I cannot find the yast configuration options mentioned on the HOWTO, or anything relating to a patch mentioned on recent posts here. I really don't want to start compiling from source if I can avoid it. Sorry to appear stupid, but I am new to SuSE and must be missing something obvious.
Help, please? -- Julian.
I wish I could give you some easy answers about NVidia, but I too am having problems with the SuSE instructions on the NVidia site. But at least I can suggest that if you want to search this for archived information in any of the SuSE newsgroups go to: http://www.suse.com/us/private/support/online_help/mailinglists/ind ex.html and click on the archive link. The link for this site is: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/
Of course, Google Groups is always a good tool to use for trying to find what's been said in the newsgroups.
Brian
What exactly is the difficulty with the instructions on the Nvidia site .. Plain enough i thought .. if your kernel is before version 2.6.5-7.75 then just run the installer ie "./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run" for the latest version ... BTW YOU DO NEED THE FULL KERNEL SOURCES NOT JUST THE BINARY DISTRO!... if you kernel is after version 2.6.5-7.75 ie 2.6.5-7.95 or later then you need to "cd /usr/src/linux" make cloneconfig make prepare-all cd to where you have you Nvidia file stored ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run --kernel-source-path= /usr/src/linux . Accept the blurb bit and ok the rest as it comes up away you go if it is unable to find a pre compiled driver it will compile one itself and install it if this fails then it means you aint got the FULL KERNEL SOURCES INSTALLED YOU NEED ALL THE *.C *.H FILES IN ALL THE SUB DIRS OFF /usr/src/linux like if you do cd mm return you should have something not unlike this below ..# ds9:/usr/src/linux/mm # ls . fremap.c mlock.c objrmap.c policy.c swap.c .. highmem.c mmap.c oom_kill.c prio_tree.c swap_state.c Makefile madvise.c mprotect.c page-writeback.c proc_mm.c swapfile.c bootmem.c memory.c mremap.c page_alloc.c readahead.c truncate.c fadvise.c mempool.c msync.c page_io.c shmem.c vmalloc.c filemap.c mincore.c nommu.c pdflush.c slab.c vmscan.c if you aint then you aint got the FULL Sources i cannot emphasise enough that you need the FULL SOURCES because YOU is not very good at installing the full kernel it only likes to install the binary bit and leaves the rest of it behind .. This applies to Suse pro 9.1 only dont know about the personal edition think that is a bit brain dead . just do as the instructions tell you and if you got every thing you need it will work the only bit i dont do is the sax2 bit i do that bit by hand dont like/trust sax/sax2 it has screwed up completelt too many times If you need any further help let me know i will see if i can help the important thing is to ensure you have the complete kernel sources that is the big failure a lot of people have . Cheers Pete -- Linux user No: 256242 Machine No: 139931 G6NJR Pete also MSA registered "Quinton 11" A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan PGN