I am new to openSUSE and just installed version 11 with KDE 4. I have been using Ubuntu and wanted to give openSUSE a shot.
I’m currently trying to get the nvidia drivers installed. Everything looked ok by default but there were some problems with the display not lining up nicely with the monitor so I figured I would install the nvidia drivers and maybe this would be fixed. I did the 1-click, for a new graphics card because my geforce fx5200 doesn’t fall under the legacy category according to nvidia legacy cards. I did ‘simple-ccsm’ and enabled desktop effects to fool around with these settings and it automatically disabled them giving a fatal error on the terminal. I believe it was this error I got from running sax2 -r later on:
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(==) NVIDIA(0): Video key set to default value of 0x101fe
(II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
(II) NVIDIA(0): enabled.
FATAL: Module nvidia not found.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) UnloadModule: "wfb"
(II) UnloadModule: "fb"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
]
I restarted the system and x did not start automatically this time. So I tried to manually start x and got:
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Oct 12 18:49:42 2008
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
FATAL: Module nvidia not found.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
giving up.
xinit: Connection reset by peer (errno 104): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
I’ve also manually edited xorg.conf and change composite to off and I still get the above .xsession error. It would be great to get these desktop effects to work and I know it is possible because the HCL appears to confirm it. For now though I would just like to get x working. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!