how to be sure nvidia driver installed and work fine

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i be sure that i return to open suse to sure that community support user in any question

i’am install OPENSUSE 11.4 SUCESSFULLY

and install nvidia wirh easy method one click

thene i do the following :

reboot

it that will finish or will be missing steps that most be doing

i thank all community and super user who build the distribution up to up

and the browser firefox are vey better than else version

note that : i’m using GNOME

I HEAR SOME user say that KDE NOT WORK WITH COMPIZ IN 11.4 OS

SO I CHOOSE GNOME>>>

THANK YOU AGAIN
:wink:

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If you installed the driver (in any way) there should be a program called “nvidia-settings”.
Try executing

nvidia-settings

in a terminal window.

This will either lead to a message saying “command not found” or open a new window with information about your NVIDIA Card & Monitor settings.
If that window opens and has some useful information (e.g. GPU 0 - … Listing) then your driver works good enough.

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On 2011-11-10 18:06, Aquinox wrote:
>
> If you installed the driver (in any way) there should be a program
> called “nvidia-settings”.
> Try executing
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> nvidia-settings
> --------------------
>
> in a terminal window.

I’m running the “nv” module, not “nvidia”, by the output of “lsmod|grep
nv”. Nevertheless, nvidia-settings runs and gives info.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

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Carlos E. R. wrote:

> On 2011-11-10 18:06, Aquinox wrote:
>>
>> If you installed the driver (in any way) there should be a program
>> called “nvidia-settings”.
>> Try executing
>>
>> Code:
>> --------------------
>> nvidia-settings
>> --------------------
>>
>> in a terminal window.
>
> I’m running the “nv” module, not “nvidia”, by the output of “lsmod|grep
> nv”. Nevertheless, nvidia-settings runs and gives info.
To be really sur that it is running I simply invoke


glxinfo | grep OpenGL

this gives definite feedback about the nvidia driver and its version if it
is in use like that


OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: ION/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 275.21
OpenGL extensions:

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PC: oS 11.4 (dual boot 12.1 RC2) 64 bit | Intel Core i7-2600@3.40GHz | KDE
4.6.0 | GeForce GT 420 | 16GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.6.0 | nVidia
ION | 3GB Ram

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On 2011-11-10 22:16, martin_helm wrote:
> To be really sur that it is running I simply invoke

Yes, I see similar output.

Funny… all this time trusting the output from the module listing,
thinking that I was using the nv or open module, and instead I’m using the
closed source one. And without doing anything at all!

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)