On Wednesday 11 Aug 2004 09:43, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 09:49, 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
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).
Woot? If you wanna play games, why in the world would you install Standard Server? You need SUSE LINUX 9.1 Professional, Standard Server is made for entirely different purpose than playing games.
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.
Question 2: Has anyone got any experience installing the nVidia drivers for a GeForce 5900Xt - did it work?
nvidia works. If you're lucky, you can download drivers with YaST and have it set up everything for you, no problem at all. I had such luck some times. Other times, no luck, the damn drivers didn't compile because they expected something in the kernel headers files and that was changed.
Anyway, it can be done.
IF people learnt to use the CLI Command Line Interface a little and not Rely on some darn GUI to do a job that involves frigging around with the graphics in the first place there would be a lot Less problems with Installing the Nvidia drivers it is a piece of cake .. The Pre-Recs are the FULL kernel sources i mean FULL as well every thing if you are running an SMP box then the SMP sources other wise the normal sources the obj 's the binary the lot and of course a Working compiler . Then Read and Print out the instructions on the Nvidia Site Follow them TO THE LETTER and you are away if it fails you have probably not followed the instructions to the Letter..
SUSE is not responsible for the mess. I'd say BLAME nvidia! Why won't they allow SUSE to include the drivers in the kit? Anyone knows what their "legal" stupid reasons are?
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 WAY in the world you can _damage_ your hardware by installing Linux.
I will back that up No Way Can Installing Linux Damage your Hardware i dunno about the other infestation thou .. 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