On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 18:26 -0400, Gil Weber wrote:
Hi, everyone.
I'm running SuSE 9.1 Pro on a e-machine (T2842). Had been using the on-board chip for video. Just purchased a GeForce FX 5500PCI video card and I'm having problems. Hope that you can help.
I uninstalled the driver for the onboard chip and then installed the new video card and rebooted. I then went into Yast2 (hardware) to load the driver. The closest one I could find was the GeForce FX 5200.
Then I did a Yast2 on-line update to add the Nvidia driver.
All of that seemed to go well.
But I can't configure the video card.
When I go into Yast2 (hardware) to try to set resolution, enable 3-D, etc. I click "change" but nothing happens.
So I then went into the SuSE menu and clicked on system/configuration/SAX2, but SAX2 doesn't open. Again, the pooter just sits there and stares at me.
So, what to do? What file should I be looking at to edit that will again let me configure the video card (run SAX2)?
Also, by loading that FX5200 driver from Yast (since Yast did not present me with a choice of FX5500) have I created a problem?
Reboot to runlevel 3 so that none of your video drivers are loaded (at the boot screen, enter "init 3" in the box at the bottom). Once booted, log in as root, and try running sax2 -m 0=nvidia That should bring up the sax2 configuration options. HTH David -- Registered Linux User No 207521 The Linux Counter: http://counter.li.org/ "The above is my personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect that of the little voices in my head."