Re: 3D Hardware Support not available

From: Henk Oegema (on4hso_at_amsat.org)
Date: 10/24/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 13:20:01 GMT

Chris Maaskant wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:04:36 +0000, Henk Oegema wrote:
>
>> It must be installed (I believe) becasuse when I do a search in Yast I
>> get: Package: xorg-x11-server-glx
>> Summary: GLX extension and nvidia dummy driver modules
>
> Nvidia dummy driver is not the nvidia driver from nvidia but the open
> source variant without 3d accelleration.
>
>> Size: 2.8MB
>> Inst.Ver.: 6.8.2-100
>>
>> Can't find anything in /usr/bin
>
> Now you know for sure that the nvidia driver is not installed, so proceed
> like i said in my previous post.
>
> Chris Maaskant.
>

I went to Nvidia homepage and there was written (via a link to:ftp://
ftp.suse.com/......nvidai-installer-HOWTO/#1)

1. (open)SuSE Linux 10.0-IA32

It is recommended to use YOU (YaST Online Update) for (re)installation
of the nvidia driver. There are several reasons for this. First, it's
simple. Second, and this is the most important one, you won't need to
recompile the nvidia kernel module after a kernel update.

Inside YOU enable "Installable and Installed Patches" for "Show
PatchGeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro 0x0150
Category" and select "Download NVIDIA(r) Graphics Driver" from the
patches list (usually at the bottom of the list). Note, that you need
to mark it as "Update" (right mouse click) if you already installed it
before and the driver was uninstalled - for any reason. Proceed as
usual now. After YOU has finished restart your Xserver (i.e. logout
from your Xsession) and you're fine.

That is what I did. And that gave me the dummy driver without 3D !! ??
(This is exactly the same as I did it in 9.3)

I also found the following in the document:

19. Support for legacy chipsets
nVidia dropped support for legacy chipsets with release 1.0-7664. Currently
these are the following:

    NVIDIA chip name Device PCI ID
    ------------------------------- -------------------------------
    RIVA TNT 0x0020
    RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro 0x0028
    RIVA TNT2 Ultra 0x0029
    Vanta/Vanta LT 0x002C
    RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro 0x002D
    Aladdin TNT2 0x00A0
    GeForce 256 0x0100
    GeForce DDR 0x0101
    Quadro 0x0103
    GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro 0x0150
    GeForce2 Ti 0x0151
    GeForce2 Ultra 0x0152
    Quadro2 Pro 0x0153

If you're affected by this use release 1.0-7174 or older.

I'm using "GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro".
So, probably the installation method above will not work and I have to load
the old releese 1.0-7664 ??
Which one was used in SuSe9.3 ? (since that one worked on my pc)

Henk

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