nVidia driver - similar to pepper's

[Sam H Bennett]

I am using the same nVidia video card that pepper mentioned in his thread. I am running SuSE 8.0. I have downloaded the kernel rpm and the GLX rpm from nVidia's web site. I need someone to please explain to me, as simply as possible, how to make these two files work. I am new to command-line, but I can move around in it . Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, especially from anyone using SuSE 8.0 and an nVidia GEforce 2 MX 400 video card.

[rapture]

Did you happen to read the README located at the bottom of the page where you downloaded the drivers?? It goes very in depth as to how to install them. It's very simple.

[Hayl]

yes - i agree - read the readme file at the bottom of the download page.

[razor_01]

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, especially from anyone using SuSE 8.0 and an nVidia GEforce 2 MX 400 video card.


Log in as root and run "SaX2"
SaX2 will replace the dummy drivers packages with the nVidia drivers via online update.
Test configuration of drivers with the command "3Ddiag"

[Dun'kalis]

Online Update works very nicely...Installed my nVidia drivers for me, while I used SuSE.

[mdwatts]

These are my notes for installing the nvidia drivers. The installation of the packages in your distro may be slightly different.


rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel.src.rpm
rpm -Uvh /path/to/rpms/RPMS/i386/NVIDIA_kernel.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh NVIDIA_GLX.i386.rpm

Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config or XF86Config-4 and change/add/delete

Driver "nv"
(or Driver "vesa")

with

Driver "nvidia"

In the Module section, make sure you have:

Load "glx"

You should also remove the following lines:

Load "dri"
Load "GLcore"

Add

alias char-major-10-175 agpgart
alias char-major-195 NVdriver

to /etc/modules.conf

cd /lib/modules/<kernel version>

depmod -ae

Restart X

[Sam H Bennett]

Thanks for the suggestions.

mdwatts,
should I log-in in text mode, or can I do this from a terminal in KDE?

[mdwatts]

I just do everything within KDE and then restart X/KDE when done.

[Sam H Bennett]

Thanks again, mdwatts. I was mistakenly thinking that these rpms had to be run in text mode because they affect X. I'll try it from Konsole.:)

[Sam H Bennett]

Thanks again to all who replied to this thread. With everyone's help, I did get the new driver installed and I got the 3D acceleration enabled.:D