Re: [SLE] Nvidia / AV Out Not Center

Shawn Holland wrote:
On Saturday 20 May 2006 7:51 am, Basil Chupin wrote:
Did you install the latest nVidia driver (not the one which comes with
SuSE but the one from nVidia itself - the latest is 1-0-8756)?
I had no end of problems with all my monitors (which behaved perfectly
with all previous versions of SuSE) until I installed the latest driver
after which all hassles disappeared.

Cheers.

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I tried them today. I remember durring install when I did the online update the Download Nvidia drivers were there and I selected them. But now when I go into YOU they don't show up anywhere. Even in installed updates or all updates.

I tried to load nvidia for the driver in xorg.conf but it still shows driver nv in hwinfo.

You need to alter the "nv" to "nvidia" (without the quotes) under the Section "Device" in xorg.conf.

But once you install the driver from nVidia you will be asked if you want to run sax2 and when you answer YES the xorg.conf file is automatically altered to the above.


So I tried downloading the run file from nvidia.com and when I tried to install it it failed durring compiling them for the kernel.

You need to install the kernel source and the glibc libraries in order for the compile to work. The simplest way to do is to go to the Utilities/Yast2 and then use the Selection option in the Software Management feature and tick the Kernel Development box - this will install everything required to be able to compile the nVidia driver.

I assume that you know what you need to do to be able to have it compiled? Namely-

* CTRL-ALT-F3 and login as root,

* type in telinit 3 <Enter>,

* login as root, then enter the directory where you have the nVidia run file sitting,

* then sh NVIDIA.......run and answer the prompts, and the driver will be compiled,

* the last question you will be asked is if you want to run sax2 to alter xorg.conf -- answer YES and the job is done,

* finally type in telinit 5 and you will be taken back to the normal desktop environment from where you started after you booted into SuSE. Here you may go fiddling with the screen settings by using Personal Settings and/or the Yast2 utilities.

A word of warning!

IF you already have the nVidia driver installed installed by SuSE - and you will find out if this is so when you go to compile the driver and you get the message that the driver is already insalled and the compile cannot proceed - then you MUST uninstall the existing driver first before trying to compile the new one.

To unistall the old driver type (without the quotes) - 'nvidia-installer --uninstall' <Enter> and the old one will be removed. Then compile the new one. (You do this also when a new driver becomes available from nVidia at a later date.)

BTW, if you find that you get a nonsense screen after you install the new driver and SuSE is basically 'unavailable' to you 'cause you cannot read what's on the screen, reboot the computer and at the boot time prompt type in (without the quotes) 'init 3', login in as root and using mc (Midnight Commander) go and edit the xorg.conf file to replace 'nvidia' with the original 'nv' so that when you re-boot again you will at least get the original (readable) screen back.

Cheers.


Its so frustrating when I know it will just work in Windows :) but I'll stick it out what ever it takes!

I'm starting to think I may just have problems with the video card as a whole. Cus I remember when it was in my older system it would lock up all the time in SuSE 9.2. And now that I've replaced the video in the older system it runs fine. And now this brand new box which I was just trying to setup as a multimedia box in the living room is locking up. And the only tv out card I had was this old gf2ti.

So I think I'll just go pick up a cheap nvidia with a composite out. See how that goes.



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