-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed December 22 2004 16:27, Lists wrote:
Hello Richard, I have the same card with X working fine. Go to the nvidia site (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-6629.html) download the nvidia driver. Once downloaded make sure that you have the kernel sources installed and updated, both via Yast, and then configure them thus ( you need to be root);
#>cd /usr/src/linux #>make cloneconfig && make dep
Close but not quite. Yes, make sure the kernel source is install, and to a "make cloneconfig". However if your running kernel source for 2.6.x then make dep is no longer used or function: # Crusher-1:/usr/src/linux # uname -r # 2.6.5-7.111.5-default # Crusher-1:/usr/src/linux # make dep # *** Warning: make dep is unnecessary now. Though you might be well served by issueing: # make prepare-all in place of "make dep". Also, Mr Lists is correct about needing to be in "init 3" . if when running #>sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run they're is a built in command help list that you can use - often times it's needed to use the install program to uninstall the drivers first before reinstallation (and pay attention to the "pkg1" part, sometimes they issue "pkg2" or "pkgX" and this has made a diff in the past). There a few tricks you can do if the installer is being cranky and uncooperative, and with the built help, online help, google, or the list will be able to address these. Mr Lists pretty much spells out what to do and it's very important to install in init 3, install cleanly (remove previous installs - and in some case tracking down files not removed, which shouldn't be a problem but has been in the past), and make sure XF86Config is properly set up - "glx" in the modules section and that indeed Device section also is setup. Note the once you get the 3D working and X and nVidia behave their is quite a few option you can use similar to those one could add to the X file for ATi cards - but it is much better documented and more thourough. I too have and ATi card (9600XT) and the drivers and support (ha there's a laugh) from ATi in inferior, nVidia is far superior IMHO. When upgrade time comes I'm back to nVidia. If you have any problems post the output to the list so we might better find the problems. Cheers, Curtis. - -- Spammers Beware: Tresspassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! Warning: Individuals throwing objects at the crocodiles will be asked to retrieve them! If pro is the opposite of con, then the opposite of progress must be congress! In the Ocean it's called salvage, on land it's called grave robbing! "As Internet technology itself vaults into new areas, so too does the Microsoft monopoly and its tried-and-true bag of tricks." - -US Senator Orrin Hatch, (R) Utah (courtesy of Fred Miller). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFByQnr7CQBg4DqqCwRAorkAJ9xzTLIDOmHFSP+0C7JW45P5v0E+ACgj5+k h3NkCaE5724M4oECXEjurgk= =wepu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----