From first install openSuse knew I had a 9500, but no 3d acceleration. 1-click-install say to use simple-ccsm to turn on effects, but after turning on effects, it doesn’t actaully seem to work, as re-running simple-ccsm shows it still disabled.
From KDE 4 menu, ‘recently installed applications’ shows nvidia app, but when I open it complains that kernel module something somthing is missing (bearing in mind yast install says everything worked fine).
Is my g-card not yet supported by 1-click-install? i didn’t try manual process suggested above, i lost patience after third re-install (also scared off by talk of recompile if i want to upgrade other bits in future), and installed mandriva 2009 instead (free version, with no issues after i used it’s package manager to install nvidia kernal module, pity my sound doesn’t work now :0 ).
i really want openSuse on my system, not mandriva. please help!
I think 1-click-installs are a bit tricky. Personally, I prefer to simply add the videocard repository (in your case that would be the nvidia repository) and let YaST handle the rest. Of course, that way I never have the most recent drivers … but I do have some pretty stable ones;)
As a last resort, you could try running sax2 -r from the console (exit KDE first).
Greetz
I shall add the repository and try again, see what happens. But I really did think the problem may be because i DONT have the latest driver. I read a ‘release notes’ somewhere that listed 9500 GT as one of the last cards to be supported (I think because it is a budget card, but a recent addition to nvidia’s product line)
With regard to the sound. It’s the sound in Mandriva, not openSUSE thats not working (what I’m using now). when I get some time I’m going to install openSUSE again. I was hoping Mandriva might just be plug and play, which it hasn’t been. I know the sound in openSUSE is a known issue, and your fix should work (it’s the analog output that was muted on first install), but that hasn’t fixed it in mandriva.
First time i installed openSUSE i got a log file it pointed me too when the setup failed, is their a log file I should look for that I can post in this thread. I know the hardware works, it’s just the configuration I need to get right.
Kind Regards,
Noel.
umm… trying to have lots of fun. lol
p.s. I not trying to fix the sound in mandriva, thanks for the input, but I only really care about getting openSUSE working.
p.p.s. advice welcome on what to do if I try re-install and it fails to text login screen again, what to type to get x windows back and all that, or whatever might be usefull. also, not sure if using the ‘failsafe’ boot option is introducing more variables into the mix (whatever that means).
