Monitor and Sound Settings

English Hardware
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I have got HP G60 125nr laptop and was able to install Opensuse 11.1 successfully. But I have two problems.

01.Whenever, I open a new window the screen appears very slowly.
I believe that I was not able to tune up the my Display adapter.

02.Even the sound card has been detected but again I am not able to tune it up.

Display Card is Nvidia Geforce 8200M G and Nvidia HD Sound.

I was able to install the Nvidia Geforce 8M drivers as per the Nvidia website.

Help me out in tuning up the above two issues.

Regards,
Suse Geeks

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What does “tune it up” mean? Do you have any sound ? System? Any application? “Tune it up” probably means something to you, but it does not to me.

You could take a look at the audio troublehshooting guide for openSUSE: SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE

Failing that, you need to be more clear as to your sound problem, as that will help determine which users are willing / able to provide suggestions. “tune it up” is just too general.

Good luck and welcome to our forum.

Note my replies may be very slow and intermittent. I am currently on vacation with very limited internet access, and very limited time.

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Probably tune it up sounds different.

Let me put it in this way.

I am able to see that Opensuse 11.1 has detected the my laptop sound car which is NVIDIA HDMI Audio. But when I try to play sound does not come at all.

I tried to configure using Yast. But it didn’t work. I belive I need to change some settings.

My main problem is monitor.

I don’t know the frequency of my laptop monitor and NVIDIA driver is not getting installed at all.

I have tried to install the driver manually as per the following

Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T)

Kindly help me out in the above two issues.

Thanks in advance.
Suse Geeks

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I’m on vacation, with very limited internet access. I can NOT give you any timely help with nVidia setup. Its easy for me, but given you are struggling it could be because either you have a strange nvidia hardware setup, or you are new to Linux. I can’t help with either case given my limited access. Did you look here: NVIDIA - openSUSE
Note, one typically has 3 drivers they can use:

  • generic vesa driver, known as “vesa”
  • openGL nividia driver, known as “nv”
  • proprietary nvidia driver, known as “nvidia”

reference your sound, did you try working your way through the openSUSE audio troubleshooting guide:
SDB:AudioTroubleshooting - openSUSE

Again, because I am on vacation with very limited internet access, I can not walk you thru this. I will be 7 to 14 days before I have better access.

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Thank you for your time and support.

I was able to install the Nvidia drivers and it is working fine.The reason, I was not able to compile is that pre-requisite was not satisfied.

Even the sound is working fine after going through troubleshooting guide.

Once again, Thank you. I will keep on posting my experience on my HP laptop.

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Congratulations on sorting this.

I got back late last night from my 3-week vacation, and it is pleasant to log on to the forum and read of success stories.