Can someone sticky the Configuring Graphics Cards wiki

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SDB:Configuring graphics cards - openSUSE

This one, in the hardware, multimedia and applications help forms. It’s not the easiest to find and I’ve seen many questions about installing the nvidia driver on 11.3 (I know I needed it to disable KMS).

11.3 is different enough that users would really benefit from having this information at hand.

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Thanks for your input :slight_smile:

Is that all right for you? Configuring graphics cards in openSUSE 11.3
Or do we need to add something else?

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That looks fine. Thank you very much.

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If it’s any help this is how the nVidia driver was loaded the hard way.

Installing the nVidia driver on openSuSE11.3-32 with KDE as desktop manager.

  1. in Yast Control Center - Boot Loader - Section Management tab,
    edit each line and add at the end,
    nomodeset
    click ok and exit Yast
  2. downloaded the latest driver from nVidia at,
    Welcome to NVIDIA - World Leader in Visual Computing Technologies
    driver file, (was on the 18-Jul-2010)
    NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256.35.run
  3. as root run command
    lsmod
    (for me this showed the nouveau driver as loaded, so) ran command,
    rmmod nouveau
  4. as root run command
    init 3
  5. log in at promt as root again
  6. open the directory where the nvidia driver was stored and run,
    sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256.35.run
    and click on appropriate boxes until successfully completed (if not successful switch-off and have an early night)
  7. Reboot as root into KDE
  8. Select in KDE Kickoff Application Launcher - Applications - System - Configuration - nVidia Configuration - X Server Display Configuration,
    then selected monitor orientation, resolution, colour depth etc,
    when satisfactory select,
    Apply
    then select,
    Save to X Configuration File
    then overwrite the existing xorg.conf (save and do not merge unless there is something special in there) with
    Save.

After reboot as user, the command,
sysinfo:/
in Konqueror gives the following,

Display Info
Vendor: nVidia Corporation
Model: GeForce 7600 GT (AGP) (should show you AGP name)
2D driver: nvidia
3D driver: NVIDIA 256.35

Note:
save the new xorg.conf file somewhere safe as it is sure to be overwritten during subswquent system updates. (Its quicker to be safe than repeat the above).

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keellambert wrote:
> 7. Reboot as root into KDE

no! never log into KDE as root.

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DenverD wrote:
— keellambert wrote:
— > 7. Reboot as root into KDE

— no! never log into KDE as root.

Absolutely right!!! Should have added ‘physically disconnect from the network’ before doing this.

root privileges are needed to write the new xorg.conf into /etc/X11/.

What’s the safest way to do this?

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Hi
Just use;


kdesu nvidia-settings

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openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.34-12-desktop
up 2:11, 2 users, load average: 0.14, 0.52, 0.52
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 256.35

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keellambert wrote:
> Absolutely right!!! Should have added ‘physically disconnect from
> the network’ before doing this.

no, not even when inside a locked room with no internet or local net
available through any means…

sure, letting folks into your computer while you are browsing as root
is a potential problem, but there is more to it than that (keep reading)…

> root privileges are needed to write the new xorg.conf into /etc/X11/.

you should never log into KDE/Gnome/XFCE or any other *nix-like
graphical user interface desktop environment as root…

doing so 1) opens you up to several different security problems, 2)
too many too easy ways to damage your system no matter how careful
your actions (example: just browsing in your home directory while
logged into KDE/Gnome/etc as root can lock you out later as yourself
due to permissions damage), 3) and, anyway logging into KDE/etc as
root is never required to do any and all administrative duties…

so, always log in as yourself, and “become root” by using a root
powered application (like YaST, File Manager Superuser Mode) or using
“su -”, sudo, kdesu, or gnomesu in a terminal to launch whatever tool
is needed (like Kwrite to edit a config file)…read more on all that
here:

http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Login_as_root
http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-runtime/userguide/root.html
http://tinyurl.com/ydbwssh
http://tinyurl.com/6ry6yd

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