The answers I was after - thanks John. My order for SuSE 9.1 was placed
yesterday after earlier comments on this list.
JH
John Scott
cc:
Subject: Re: [SLE] Nvidia drivers via http download - Please
08/11/04 01:11 help
PM
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jonathan_hughes@goodyear.co.za wrote:
| Hi list,
|
| I have the following specs:
|
| Gigabyte GA-K8NNXP mboard
| AMD Athlon 64 3200+ CPU (with standard heatsink and fan)
| MSI GeForce FX 5900XT GPU
| 2 x 512MB DDR 333MHz (PC2700) Legend
| 1 x 40Gig Seagate 7200RPM 8Mb Cache System Hard Disk
| COMPAQ 19" 9500 Monitor
Almost identical setup, I have a GeForce 5500XT w/256MB RAM (vendor messed
up and shipped this instead of 5600 w/128.
Shame they didn't ship the 5950 instead.) instead and a 200G hdd and I use
a 19" Samsung SyncMaster 950p (moving to a
19" LCD soon).
| I plan a SUSE Standard Server 8 install on this machine whithin the next
| couple of days (to replce my Micro$oft OS) for watching movies and trying
| out some 3D games on SUSE (I have read a lot about this latley).
Use SuSE 9.0/9.1 instead.
| Question 1:
| Can anyone tell me if they have a location of the nVidia drivers (that
one
| needs to download and install) via http and NOT ftp so I can get them.
Our
| ftp is disabled on my work connection and I want to get these drivers.
The
| problem is nVidia only offer them for ftp download so I am stuck. I dont
| have the web from home.
Install from command line in runlevel three (init 3) using yast and select
the fetchnvidia patch. Then run SaX2 to
finish it up. Try one of the http mirrors for the patch install. I've got
a copy here in case you don't get the patch
to run.
http://www.hsc.usf.edu/~joscott/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run
I'll leave it for a few days.
| Question 2:
| Has anyone got any experience installing the nVidia drivers for a GeForce
| 5900Xt - did it work?
My 5500XT works great, Unreal Tournament 2004 screams and DVDs play fine
once you get the right packages in place.
| Question3:
| Can I damage any of my hardware installing Linux on this system? From the
| manuals and Web it appears SUSE fully supports the AMD Athlon 64 chips so
I
| feel secure. Just in case - can I damage anything obvious? I put a lot of
| my (and my girlfriend's ;-) personal cash to setup this system - so I
| cannot afford to blow it.
No.
John
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