Re: [SLE] Can't get nvidia to work

From: Jim Sabatke (jsabatke_at_execpc.com)
Date: 08/22/04

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    Leendert Meyer wrote:
    > On Sunday 22 August 2004 21:45, Jim Sabatke wrote:
    >
    >>SuSE 9.0 pro
    >>
    >>YOU updated kernal to 2.4.21-243-default
    >>
    >>YOU updated nvidia 0x0347
    >>
    >>nvidia site says use nvidia 0x0348 for FX GO5700 (1680x1050)
    >>there is 0x0348 in sax2, but it wants a manual setup for the
    >>monitor
    >>
    >>after the YOU updates, can't get into X with anything
    >>displayed properly, so this driver is wrong.
    >>
    >>tried the latest nvidia driver from root, but I need the
    >>kernal sources.
    >>
    >>can't find the latest kernal source on the suse ftp site,
    >>but there is so much stuff there I'm probably looking in the
    >>wrong place.
    >
    >
    > Did you read this:
    >
    > http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/nvidia-installer-HOWTO
    >
    > Cheers,
    >
    > Leen
    >

    I sure did read it first. It says for 9.0 to just let YOU
    do all the work, then restart the X server. I did that and
    now it won't display X. 

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