[AuckLUG] Re: Opensuse 10.2 NVIDIA driver problem with Geforce 7900 GS card

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Well I uninstalled those troublesome nvidia rpms that yast gave me and got 
hold of the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9755-pkg1.run file in order to proceed with 
the hard way. Thanks, Tich, for the link to the URL 
http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html#1 - I used this to 
help carry out the next steps. So I did the following

>telinit 3
>sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9755-pkg1.run -q
>sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia
This didn't work so I ran
>sax2 -r 0=nvidia
This worked without problems.

Then I rebooted back into my lovely linux box and ran
>gnome-xgl-switch --enable-xgl
and rebooted.

However, the starting of X failed on reboot citing a failure to load nvidia 
and glx modules. So I ran
>gnome-xgl-switch --disable-xgl
and rebooted. Things worked ok again and my machine booted into X but 
obviously without the XGL stuff.

So what's the story now? Am I running off the nvidia driver? I think I am - 
but I have no 3D acceleration. When I perform lsmod|grep nvidia I get
*************
nvidia 4566646 0
agpgart 35528 0 nvidia
i2c_core 34543 2 nvidia,i2c_nforce2
*************

Additionally, my /etc/X11/xorg.config file has the following entries under 
section "Module" and section "Device" respectively
**************
Load "glx"
Load "v41"

Driver "nv"
**************

Now, as I write this I'm thinking that the nv driver is not the 'real' 
proprietry nvidia driver so am I running the nvidia driver or not???

And is there anything I can do to get XGL going from here???

Thanks,
Dec