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

[tich at clad.co.nz]

The -m parameter of sax2 is required.  Without it sax2 won't understand 
the 0=nvidia bit as the -m 0=nvidia tells X window to use the nvidia 
driver for card 0.

I didn't use the gnome-xgl-switch to get mine going. It just worked after 
I enabled 3D settings and selected all available options for the card.


On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Subs wrote:

> 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
> 
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