9800GT driver not work

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Hi there

I’m installing the nvidia video card driver (173.14.12) on my new PC which has a EVGA GeForce 9800GT video card. I’ve tried both the easy way and the hard way. the installation itself is smooth without any errors.
after finish, when I run “sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia”, sax2 still shows only a VESA framebuffer graphics card is installed, this is the default after I finished a fresh installation.

Anyone knows how to make my 9800GT work or the current driver does not support this card yet? I heard that 9800GT is almost the same as 8800GT, I assume the driver works for both.
Thanks in advance.

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Hi
It always shows a VESA card, did you complete the configuration and
test? Is 3D enabled? When you get to your desktop run nvidia-settings,
all ok?

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 6 days 4:06, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.08, 0.09
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12

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Is “sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia” to config it? but when it starts, only show me vesa card, I can’t change. 3D is enabled but in grey, I can’t disable it.here is the screen. /home/pqq/sax2.jpg

if it always show a vesa card, how can I know the driver works or not?

running nvidia-settings shows “GPU unknown”, like the followings.
so I guess the driver does not work yet.
/home/pqq/9800-1.jpg
/home/pqq/9800-2.jpg
/home/pqq/9800-3.jpg

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I can’t upload screen shots, here they are
sax2 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
9800-1 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
9800-3 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
9800-2 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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I can’t upload the screen shots, here they are
sax2 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
9800-1 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
9800-2 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
9800-3 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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Hi
That indicates the driver IS working, if you got the nvidia-settings
with no output (It tells you you don’t have a card/driver installed),
then the driver isn’t installed.

What is on the very first screen “X Server Information” under the
“System information” section, is it 173.14.12?

You can modify the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to add your card in the
BoardName option eg. It should update the next time the X server is
started.


Section "Device"
BoardName    "GeForce 9800 GT"

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 6 days 7:25, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.06, 0.01
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12

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I have modified /etc/X11/xorg.conf accordingly, after rebooting, nvidia-setting still says “GPU unknown”.>:(
“X Server Information” do show “nvidia driver version=173.14.12”, as following screen shot.
9800-4 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Anything I need to do or it is ok?

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Hi
That is showing its all installed and your good to go :slight_smile: apart from
the error. Not sure if adding it to the /etc/X11/xgl-hardware-list would
help…

You would need to add the hex code (after the name and in between the
[xxxx:xxxx]) from the output of lspci -nnv to the unrecognized section.

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 6 days 14:45, 2 users, load average: 0.06, 0.05, 0.08
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12

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Hi

I have solved the problem by installing the newest nvidia driver 177.70, it is a beta version though, not sure how good it will be, but so far so good.
here is the link for the new release.
177.70 (BETA) for Linux x86/x86-64 released - nV News Forums

Thanks a lot for the help.:slight_smile: