On Thursday 23 December 2004 1:55 pm, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
On Monday 20 December 2004 11:05 pm, Richard wrote:
On Monday 20 December 2004 8:38 pm, B. Stia wrote:
On Monday 20 December 2004 18:53, Richard wrote: ...............<snip a bunch>............
Nvidia has probably provided the best "manufacturer" video card support for Linux over anyone else out there.
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So given these facts, here are some conclusions:
Hi Richard,
Hey, why not knock off till after the holidays? Never work under anymore pressure than necessary.
Because I was starting to get the DT's when I had no working linux system and had to boot up XP just to be able to look at a screen.
If you got something that ends in pkg2 then don't trust it!!!! the most current installer pkg at the NVIDIA site is 6629 pkg1. This works on my SUSE 8.2 and 1 9.2 systems and 6111 on another SMP 9.2 PC.
If starting the sys from a reset or power on, and you never saw correct text screens the prob is almost certainly HW. until SUSE boot process starts X the sys is only using the VESA std vga part of the card.
When things calm down take a thoro look at the SYS board and cards and all connections. Those AGP cards can get very tweaky about correct seating in their slots.
Happy Holidays!!!! ........................... PeterB
I will check these all out some more. I perhaps failed to mention I am working on x86_64 AMD system. I notice -pkg1 was most recent for IA32 release, -pkg2 for -64. Also, -pkg2 added support for 6600GT, my new card, chosen over the 6800 because nvidia showed support for it. What are the gotcha's that may be lurking in the 6629 builds? Richard