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. 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.