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From: Martin on 1 Jun 2010 05:30 On 01/06/10 09:33, graham wrote: > On Mon, 31 May 2010 17:39:25 +0200, Martin wrote: > >> On 31/05/10 17:23, Darklight wrote: > >>> make sure you use the one click legacy driver for geforce4 from >>> opensuse. >> >> I have and did. :o) > > I had a similar problem. > When I looked in yast I noted four pairs of nvidia drivers. > I removed those not related to my card and everything worked. > ( the pairs being the glx and kernel modeules. ) If only it was so easy :o) I only have the two that are required for my card installed, namely x11-video-nvidia and nvidia-gfx-kmp-default Incidentally using Open Suse Linux 11.0 I had no problems with the graphics board.
From: Martin on 1 Jun 2010 05:50 On 01/06/10 11:30, Martin wrote: > On 01/06/10 09:33, graham wrote: >> On Mon, 31 May 2010 17:39:25 +0200, Martin wrote: >> >>> On 31/05/10 17:23, Darklight wrote: >> >>>> make sure you use the one click legacy driver for geforce4 from >>>> opensuse. >>> >>> I have and did. :o) >> >> I had a similar problem. >> When I looked in yast I noted four pairs of nvidia drivers. >> I removed those not related to my card and everything worked. >> ( the pairs being the glx and kernel modeules. ) > > If only it was so easy :o) > > I only have the two that are required for my card installed, namely > x11-video-nvidia and nvidia-gfx-kmp-default > > Incidentally using Open Suse Linux 11.0 I had no problems with the > graphics board. In desperation I removed the GeForce 4 drivers and replaced them with the GeforceFx drivers. The normal boot failed but rebooting from the fail safe option, worked. I now have proper windowing. Very strange!
From: Darklight on 1 Jun 2010 13:11 Martin wrote: > On 01/06/10 09:33, graham wrote: >> On Mon, 31 May 2010 17:39:25 +0200, Martin wrote: >> >>> On 31/05/10 17:23, Darklight wrote: >> >>>> make sure you use the one click legacy driver for geforce4 from >>>> opensuse. >>> >>> I have and did. :o) >> >> I had a similar problem. >> When I looked in yast I noted four pairs of nvidia drivers. >> I removed those not related to my card and everything worked. >> ( the pairs being the glx and kernel modeules. ) > > If only it was so easy :o) > > I only have the two that are required for my card installed, namely > x11-video-nvidia and nvidia-gfx-kmp-default > > Incidentally using Open Suse Linux 11.0 I had no problems with the > graphics board. i just looked at mine an i also have these installed nvidia-gfx-kmp-desktop nvidia-gfx-kmp-pea but i don't have the desktop and pea kernel installed
From: Martin on 1 Jun 2010 13:38 On 01/06/10 19:11, Darklight wrote: > Martin wrote: > >> On 01/06/10 09:33, graham wrote: >>> On Mon, 31 May 2010 17:39:25 +0200, Martin wrote: >>> >>>> On 31/05/10 17:23, Darklight wrote: >>> >>>>> make sure you use the one click legacy driver for geforce4 from >>>>> opensuse. >>>> >>>> I have and did. :o) >>> >>> I had a similar problem. >>> When I looked in yast I noted four pairs of nvidia drivers. >>> I removed those not related to my card and everything worked. >>> ( the pairs being the glx and kernel modeules. ) >> >> If only it was so easy :o) >> >> I only have the two that are required for my card installed, namely >> x11-video-nvidia and nvidia-gfx-kmp-default >> >> Incidentally using Open Suse Linux 11.0 I had no problems with the >> graphics board. > > i just looked at mine an i also have these installed > nvidia-gfx-kmp-desktop > nvidia-gfx-kmp-pea I trieed that combination that resulted in me having to use the Failsafe option :o) > > but i don't have the desktop and pea kernel installed > Mine is working because it is using a default driver and not using any of the Nvidia stuff <sigh>
From: Eef Hartman on 2 Jun 2010 04:50
Martin <martin(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: > There isn't a 'nvidia-settings' program IN the > x11-video-nvidia-96.43.16 Before my previous message, I grabbed the rpm from the NVidia repo with wget http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.1/i586/x11-video-nvidia-96.43.16-24.1.i586.rpm and looked into that rpm with rpm -qpl x11-video-nvidia-96.43.16-24.1.i586.rpm | grep nvidia-settings and behold, there IS: /usr/bin/nvidia-settings and even a man page and user guide /usr/share/man/man1/nvidia-settings.1.gz /usr/share/doc/packages/x11-video-nvidia/nvidia-settings-user-guide.txt So either you got "another x11-video-nvidia-96.43.16 package" or you didn't look far enough. PS: the -24.1 part of the RPM name might be different for another openSUSE version, use "zypper search -s x11-video-nvidia" to get the exact version number I cannot unpack/run it, of course, as I already got another NVidia package installed (this is rather new hardware, the 96.43 release is much too old for this machine). -- ****************************************************************** ** Eef Hartman, Delft University of Technology, dept. SSC/ICT ** ** e-mail: E.J.M.Hartman(a)tudelft.nl - phone: +31-15-27 82525 ** ****************************************************************** |