Hi everyone. I have some problems with my onboard nvidia card. I have suse 10.2 and installed the nvidia drivers via the script on their website. At the logon I can see the nvidia logo and the graphics looks ok, but still I am not convinced the drivers got installed ok. If I run sax2 from terminal as root, the card is still Vesa Framebuffer Graphics, and I can not change it to envidia. I also tried changing the card via sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia, but still didn’t work.How can I know if the drivers are installed correctly? Can I do a frames per second test? Thanks for any suggestion.
You didn’t say which card you have. I was reading a blog and was shocked to see the new driver that everyone loves will NOT support the 5xxx cards. That leaves me out!
They won’t support it with future drivers either. Questions about this, on another board, just got insults for having old equipment.
It is an integrated card on the Gigabyte motherboard. From the lspci command I get it is GeForce 6100 nForce 430.
Did you look into whether your card requires the legacy driver? There are two main versions of the Nvidia driver, the 173.xxx for newer cards and the 96.xxx for older cards.
Also confirm it’s the right driver for your kernel version. Yast ideally should not let users install Nvidia drivers that are incorrect for their kernel, but it can happen sometimes.
Appendix A. Supported NVIDIA GPU Products
I’ve had a look over the list of supported cards found here, the closest supported matches I found were the GeForce 6100 nForce 400, 405 and the 420. I failed to find any mention of the chip you’ve named. I don’t think you need the legacy driver however; the 6 series GPUs still seemed to be supported by the main driver.
Thanks guys, but I don’t know how to check if the card requires legacy drivers, how can I do that 
And is there any way to check the fps, to verify the driver I used, results in better graphics. Thanks once again for your help.
I found the command to check fps, its glxgears, which shows me about 1800 FPS, so I gues the driver installed works ok.