Suse 10 And Nvidia Go 7440, Intel Duo Core Wlan Etc.

Struggling to support several pieces of the hardware on a new vaio sz1xp/c

Problem 1: graphics - nvidia gefore go 7400
have tried following the instructions with the new nvidia drivers but rebuilding the kernel fails and the graphics
card is not seen....

Problem 2: wlan - not seen, tried to install the ipw from intel, running the script it falls over

Has anyone got these components working in SUSE?

make sure you have kernel sources,gcc/gcc++ & make installed,then try

andy

make sure you have kernel sources,gcc/gcc++ & make installed,then try

andy
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yep these have all been installed.......through YAST they are all ticked as present

have you tried installing the nvidia drivers via yast online update ? can you post any error messages you are getting ?

andy

have you tried installing the nvidia drivers via yast online update ? can you post any error messages you are getting ?

andy
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tried this - reinstalled using right click - all ok when initiate sax2 the graphics card is shown as VESA at the wrong resolution and I can't see how to change it to nvidia
no particular error message but the display resolution is much poorer and smaller than the screen resolution

have the nvidia drivers been installed ? have a look in your xorg.conf, if the driver is installed it should look similar to mine,especially the device section, see attached. also try running glxinfo from a console, if it says direct rendering =no the drivers did not install & need to be reinstalled

andy

Your WLAN card is probably a ipw3945, it seems to be the one used in all of the new "Centrino" laptops. AFAIK there is no driver for it in SuSE 10.0. You can either build it from source, or you can install SuSE 10.1 when it comes out (~May 11th), as the driver is included with the non-oss cd. ~Loki

Regarding the display problem, try to install the nvidia drive manually (downloading the driver from nvidia and running the scripts from terminal login). I had the same problem and Yast was no help. So, I tried manually and it worked. The newest driver from nvidia has support for the 7400.