I Am Losing My Hair ! No Nforce Nvida Graphics Support

Hello,

I am new to Suse and do not have the best first impression, but I am certain it is ME who has hosed things up. I am losing my hair because I am pulling it out because I cannot get the graphics driver installed.
I installed (dual boot) Vista & Suse 10.2 and things went ok except of course the video driver was not correct.
Very slow and delayed response to mouse tracking.

Suse 10.2
Compaq F762NR Notebook
nForce nVidia onboard video controller

1) I googled my butt off and saw that I could download the nVidia drivers from
download.nvidia.com and did that. I first tried the rpm (rpm -i filename). It said it
successfully installed but it did not make the display behave any different, almost like
the right driver was not loaded.

2) I then got the installer package ***.run and ran that and it said it finished and suggested
I hit the test button to see if it worked before I accepted it. I did, and it did not work.
Then like an idiot, I hit ok anyway and not after booting it comes up in the big black screen single user command line mode.

Can anyone help me get my display back and working correctly before I am completely bald ?

Thank you very much

You installed the drivers??

So, you have those; what now? = config the drivers:
reboot & at the bootsplash type "level 3" which will boot you to a command line
log in as root
type "sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia" 0 is a zer0 & sax2 will start & you should be able to config the card & monitor
test, always test
when you have it the way you want, save
reboot


If you have problems, You need to su to root first. "Then type"
"sax2 -m 0=nv" or "sax2 -m 0=vesa" nv is the generic suse driver; vesa is a sort of ****py driver but will get you up to fix stuff.

You installed the drivers??

So, you have those; what now? = config the drivers:
reboot & at the bootsplash type "level 3" which will boot you to a command line
log in as root
type "sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia" 0 is a zer0 & sax2 will start & you should be able to config the card & monitor
test, always test
when you have it the way you want, save
reboot
If you have problems, You need to su to root first. "Then type"
"sax2 -m 0=nv" or "sax2 -m 0=vesa" nv is the generic suse driver; vesa is a sort of ****py driver but will get you up to fix stuff.
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Thank you much for the help. Someone else told me to follow instructions at :


http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA

which worked after the 3rd try. guess that's why they say third time is a charm !

thanks again !

Glad you got it working