Re: [SLE] nVIDIA Driver Problem
From: Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. (smolnar_at_jadeinc.com)
Date: 10/24/03
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To: Jan Elders <jrme@xs4all.nl> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:40:17 -0400
Actually, I missed it. Thanks for reposting.
I happy to say that I have solved the problem. I mearly followed the
directions in 3Ddiag with one exception.
The execption is that in order to get the drivers to work I have to include
insmod <path> nvidia.o in the boot instructions. Once I did that I have the
4496 drivers working. The only problem remaining is that XWindows is very
slow starting, it takes several minutes, much longer than the last nvidia
drivers that worked on my system.
On Friday: October 24, 2003 01:46 pm, Jan Elders wrote:
> On Friday 24 October 2003 04:08, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
> > SuSE8.1/nVIDIA GeForce2 Pro/4496 Drivers for SuSE8.1
> >
> > This has been a reoccurring problem, but up to now it hasn't been
> > important enough to solve. The stock SuSE drivers have been sufficient
> > fro using OpenGL. Now, however, I have some new modeling software that
> > requires later nVIDIA drivers.
> >
> > I downloaded and installed, following the SuSE specific directions, the
> > 4496 drivers - both kernel and GLX. The first time that I attempted to
> > open X the screen went dark and it was necessary to reboot the system to
> > recover. According to the window boot messages it was still loading the
> > nv module. I did insmod nvidia.o and got Xwindows to open. However,
> > when I attempt to run gears I get error messages:
> >
> > GLUT fatal error in gears: OpenGL extension not supported by
> > display: :0.0
> >
> > Now, I know that this sort of problem has cropped up a lot of late, but I
> > can't seem to find any solutions that work for my system.
> >
> > I restored the system by removing the 4496 files and reinstalling the
> > SuSE stock distribution.
> >
> > Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Stephen,
> Didn't you see my posting of yesterday or did it not help you ?
>
> I repeat my message :
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> This my attempt to contribute some information for people who are
> struggling with the NVIDIA 4496 driver (like I have been doing for many
> weeks).
>
> THE PROBLEM :
> After installation of the new NVIDIA 4496 driver on my system (with an
> Nvidia GeForce4 488Go card), I only got a black screen when starting X.
> This could be solved by setting Option "NvAGP" "0" in the Device section
> of XF86Config, but ....... it was not possible anymore to go to a console
> with CTRL-ALT-F1 .... F6.
> When doing that, I only got a strange garbled multicolor screen without the
> system reacting to anything. It was only possible to go back to X again
> (with CTRL-ALT-F7). The same garbled screen was shown when shutting down
> the system.
>
> THE SOLUTION :
> After having tried in vain many things as suggested by helpful people in
> this discussion group, I followed the one and only useful advice (from
> Basil Chupin) :
> Throw away the 4496 driver !!!!! And install the older 4363 driver.
> After having done so everything worked perfect (without having changed
> anything else on my system), so the 4496 driver really must be incorrect.
> Now I could also set Option "NvAGP" "1" and all still works well.
>
> For those who want to know, here's what I did to move back to the 4363 :
> 1. Download the 4363 driver from www.nvidia.com
> 2. Goto runlevel 3 (or restart in Safe Mode)
> 3. Do the following :
> nvidia-installer --uninstall (to remove the 4496)
> cd /usr/src/linux
> make cloneconfig && make dep
> cd << your download directory >>
> sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run
> 4. Goto runlevel 5
> And .... you will be happy again (I hope)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Cheers,
> --
> Jan Elders
> Nuenen
> the Netherlands
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