nvidia drivers 11.3

[jaybott]

Can someone post the url to the nividia drivers for 11.3. They are not yet in the community repos.

[Romanator]

I'm not sure that the official Nvidia drivers are ready. However, I searched and found an Nvidia driver "nvidia-gfxG02" under Get Software.

It supports the newer cards GeForce 6x and higher. My card is an GeForce 8600 GTS. BTW I didn't have to blacklist the nouveau driver before installing the rpm.

Add the following link to Yast Software Repositories:

Index of /repositories/home:/Yareg/openSUSE_11.3


Cheers!

Romanator

[jaybott]

Thanks, that worked! Ill use this until they get the official nvidia repo up.

[whych]

Just make sure you have backed up your old xorg.conf file from your previous install. The new nvidia drivers don't work too well at creating a working xorg.conf.
You can also use the 'hard way' install as detaield in the how-tos and download the drivers from nvidia's site.
Make sure you run the install in a run level 3 terminal.

[boenis]

Just for information: To enable 3D acceleration you have to edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Add the option "direct rendering" "yes", i.e.:

Section "Device"
BoardName "GeForce 8200"
Driver "nvidia"
Identifier "Device[0]"
VendorName "NVIDIA"
Option "direct rendering" "yes"
EndSection

[ashley194]

Thanks for pointing me to Yareg's repo's, works a treat!

[Ecky]

I've tried this driver and it sorta works

I can open up the nvidia-settings program, usually when I've not had a properly working nvidia driver in the past when opening this I've got a message saying I'm not using the nvidia driver

The problem being I only get two resolution choices: 640x480 and 320x240

If I rename the created xorg.conf to something else to trying forcing auto-detection of the card it gets a little better, in nvidia-settings I then get some higher resolutions ... up to a whopping 1024x768

It's a 32bit system and the card is a GeForce GTS250, on 11.2 I could use resolutions up to 1680x1050

Any ideas what I need to do so I can use higher resolutions?

Incidentally I get exactly the same behaviour if I do a 'hard way' driver install from the binary

[dwightpaige79]

Add the following link to Yast Software Repositories:

Index of /repositories/home:/Yareg/openSUSE_11.3


Cheers!

Romanator

That worked well here. I just added 'nomodeset' to kernel line in menu.lst and installed it 'the hard way' as normal and rebooted. I have saved 'xorg.conf' from previous install as well as current 11.3 install in a secure location.

[dich]

Thanks, that worked! Ill use this until they get the official nvidia repo up.

yes, me too, thanks! just can't get compositing back, was all fine in 11.2

[boenis]

yes, me too, thanks! just can't get compositing back, was all fine in 11.2

For compositing you have to enable 3D acceleration. See my posting in this thread.