Re: NVIDIA and 24-bit color

From: Hawkeye (Hawkeye__59_at_SPAMMENOThotmail.com)
Date: 11/24/03 

Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 00:28:19 -0500

This will be my first ever attempt at this. I cut and pasted the
following instructions someone else relieved in another post regarding
this subject and I assume this is what I will need to do.

I will assume you have logged into KDE:
The way I usually install these drivers is to press ctrl, alt and F3
at the
same time. You should get a black screen with a prompt on it. Type
root and
press the return (enter) button. Enter the root password and press
return.
Now type:
 /etc/init.d/xdm stop
This stops the X-window system under Suse. You should check that xdm
is in
that directory. If you are comming from windows, the directories are
separted with / and not with \ under linux.
Press ctrl, alt and F3 again to get your screen back where you were
working.
  Now sou can type
sh NVIDIA-Linux--x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run

As far as I remember there are a couple of questions to answer that
may need
scrolling down the page.
Now restart the X-windows with
/etc/init.d/xdm start
And a login screen should appear.

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 23:21:48 -0500, Big Daddy <noway@nowhere.com>
wrote:

>on Sun November 23 2003 11:54 am, Hawkeye decided to enlighten us with:
>
>>
>>>Do you have an nVidia card and the actual nVidia (not SuSE provided)
>>>drivers installed? The SuSE downloaded driver through YaST does not have
>>>3D acceleration. You must get the ones from nVidia's site.
>>
>> Correct on the Yast nvidia install. Does this have to be removed
>> prior to installing the one from nvidia site?
>
>No, just download the ones from nVidia't site and follow the instructions.
>You must get out of X completely and install from the commandline. 

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