On Monday 22 May 2006 8:32 pm, Alvaro Kuolas wrote:
Shawn Holland wrote:
--- I've treid older but none of them worked :)
It would be great if YOU would be smart enough to understand the above and have the steps listed in the howto automated. But its not SuSE's fault. I blame this one on nvidia :)
But after successful completion of the compile of 1.0-7174 I still could not get SaX2 to load the nvidia drivers.
I used the SaX2 -m 0 nvidia. It loads SaX2 and the picture is all black (but looks centered :) ) but there is no image at all on it.
I will try a little bit more today and review the logs and maybe do a fresh install and do all the steps listed in the howto incase I f'd something up with my constant adjusting this trying that.... etc...
If I still can't get it to work I'll just stop and tomorrow first thing I'll buy a newer nvidia with composite out :)
Look the patches on the nV Forums. (especially for the kernel 2.6.16)
On SuSE 10.0 you must create the devices every time you boot the system. That's why moving the script for creating the devices to /etc/rc.d/boot.local it's a dirty hack... but works :)
I'm sorry but all this work to install a video card driver seems a bit excessive to me. Its a video driver. Its not rocket science but it sure seems to be just as hard to do. I've already bought a new nvidia card. And wouldn't my luck follow me. The svideo out to my tv is fuzzy. I think its time to do what all those commercials say. Give up my day job and become a trades person :) Good luck to anyone else trying to use a still usefull nv card that cost over $200 at the time on SuSE. Can you tell I'm getting bitter? -- Regards, Shawn Holland