On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 23:54:10 Peter Ragosch wrote:
Am Sun, 2 Aug 2009 11:55:17 -0300
schrieb "Marcelo Magno T. Sales"
: People,
I had an nvidia GeForce 8400 that worked perfectly in this opensuse 11.1 box. However, the video card failed and was replaced by an GeForce 9400 GT, which seems not to work with opensuse 11.1's X server (?!). sax2 detects the new card as VESA Framebuffer and gives me 1280x1024 resolution only (should be 1680x1050) and veeeeery slow graphics. If I force it to generate a xorg.conf file which loads the appropriate driver ("sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia" or "sax2 -r -m 0=nv"), X aborts while loading. The "nvidia" driver was installed from nvidia's opensuse repository (http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.1). I have installed Fedora 11 in this machine to test the card and it works perfectly well with Fedora, but I'd rather stay with opensuse. Is there a way to make this card work with opensuse? I have the following packages installed: kernel-pae-2.6.27.25-0.1.1 kernel-pae-base-2.6.27.25-0.1.1 kernel-pae-extra-2.6.27.25-0.1.1 xorg-x11-7.4-8.19.1 xorg-x11-server-7.4-17.6.1 xorg-x11-driver-video-7.4-19.8.2 nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-pae-185.18.14_2.6.27.23_0.1-2.2
Thanks,
Marcelo
I'm missing the x11-video-nvidiaG02 library in your rpm list (this is the driver in fact).
Peter
Peter,
Go to the NVidia web site and download the latest driver version 185.18.29.
Open a command line where you downloaded it to and type sh <installer
file.run>.
Make sure that you have the kernel source for your running kernel installed
(as well as gcc + the usual dev stuff) and that you have at least prepped the
sources by running make oldconfig && make prepare on the kernel sources.
The nvidia installer will then compile the new kernel modules and driver and
complete the installationl.
The only drawback to doing it this way is that everytime you update the kernel
you'll have to go back to the installer and run sh