You can find the list of Nvidia Latency Cards on the OpenSUSE Wiki. The top of that page also gives you the command for the hardware information for your card, so that might help you get more information on your card. If you do find that you have a latency card, the Nvidia Page has the latency drivers on the second part of the Easy Way section.
As for your question about changing the resolution to a different setting: when you get to the splash screen that has the options for booting into SUSE (or Windows if you have a dual boot), cursor (the dark bar) over your OpenSUSE option and type 3 and then hit the enter key. This will load your CLI (Command Line Interface). Once all your system options finish loading, type your username and hit enter, and then type your password for your username and hit enter. After that, type su and then enter the root password. Now that you are logged in as root, type sax2 and hit enter. This will bring up your graphic card screen, and here you can change your graphic card information, as well as your resolution. Once you like the settings you have entered, click the Accept/OK button. Now type exit and then startx into the command terminal. This will load your graphic interface.
Now, about the drivers, you can check which drivers you have installed in YaST through the command terminal as well. Load the terminal when you load SUSE (as mentioned above) and then login with your username and then as root (again, as above). Now type yast2 and YaST will load. Use your arrow keys to find Software Management under the Software section in the left column. Hit enter. Once your repositories are done loading, hit F1 to find the F-key commands. Hit the search key that you found in help and search nvidia (hit enter). Now you can see which packages you have installed for your drivers.
Sorry for the long post, but hope that solves your problem.
(NOTE: Always use Sax2 to configure your card when you install a new driver)
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> i enable 3D acceleration but after update graphic card i got problem
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> i can’t run xserver
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> failed to load the nvidia kernel module
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> after that i updated my graphic card with
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.05-pkg1.run package from nvidia website then i
> run init 5 and
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> succeed to login normally
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> but i think it’s not a good driver for my graphic card because it’s
> very slowly
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> then i chane the resolution to 1024*768 but when i login ,it goes
> white
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> how to return it to default resolution with default graphic card
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> graphic crad:GeForce FX 5200 128MB
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I’m using openSUSE 11.0 GM, Nvidia FX5200. I used Yast to install the rpm
package from http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.0. All my graphics
appear to be working fine including the 3D.
HI:
I have the same problem with the graphic card e-GeForce FX5200 in openSUSE 11.0. I did both procedures: Configuring with Yast and nvidia repositories and running sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.09-pkg.1.run -q. For both sax2 responds with error: died at /usr/share/init.pl line 653.
Besides, the file xorg.conf does not contain any information about the card.
In the same machine Windows xp does not have problem working with the card.
I suspect the problem is related with the presence of an unused onboard graphic card I have. This unused card is a PCI onboard card, the GeForce is also a PCI card.
I intended to instruct the bios not to use the onboard card without success. In fact my bios has not clearly stated how to declare active only the pci card Geforce which is installed into the upper pci slot.
Provisionally, to access openSUSE 11.0, I boot on “failsafe” which works fairly well despite the problem with the card.
Any suggestion will be useful.
Thanks.
Have you tried using the OpenSUSE package for the Nvidia driver found on the OpenSUSE Wiki (found here if you need to reference it)? I checked the latency list for the drivers and yours is a normal card, so the first button, the green one, for 1-click install would be the one you can install. I used to use the driver from the Nvidia website, but found that the one from the OpenSUSE Wiki is more supported and has had less problems related to it (at least in my own experience). Once you install the 1-click install driver (YaST will walk you through it), open a terminal window and login as a SuperUser using the su command and entering your root password. Once you have logged in as root, issue the command sax2 -r. After some loading, Sax2 should load and all your graphics configuration settings should be presented. If Sax2 doesn’t load, try to see if you were alerted to refer to any error files. If you were, open a terminal window and enter the command cat followed by the location of the error file to have the contents of the file presented in the terminal. If there are any errors in the file, they should be near the bottom of the file (if you want to exit the file, press the q button on your keyboard to exit).
I followed your instructions and used the Opensuse wiki and made the 1-click install without success. In fact the installation looks OK but sax2 -r fails. The output of sax2 -r is:
*** buffer overflow detected ***: /usr/sbin/sysp terminated
After, the following:
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x48)[0xb7ac14c8]
/lib/libc.so.6[0xb7abf500]
/lib/libc.so.6[0xb7abe79d]
…
…and a long text with a final row:
Died at /usr/share/sax/init.pl line 653.
Just so I can follow along properly (don’t want to be on two separate pages ), can you walk me through how you installed the drivers and then opened Sax2?
Just want to be absolutely sure that there’s no steps missing and where along the process the error occured.
I get the same error on a dual nvidia sli setup. lspci shows the following
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8800M GTX (rev a2)
04:00.0 3D controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8800M GTX (rev a2)
