Well I finally made the move to 11.1 natively as opposed to the virtual I had under Win 7. Win 7 became worthless since they haven’t gotten all of the driver issues ironed out yet. My games were freezing on me and it is actually a BSOD in the background forcing a hard restart. Even though you’re tempted, don’t bash it! It’s still in RC.
To the question, when I install the Nvidia driver via yast with the Nvidia Settings app. (not sure of the exact name at the moment) The system does see the new card but the driver is not being changed correctly in the xorg.conf. When I start the Nvidia Settings app I get a popup saying that the system is not using the Nvidia driver and to fix this run nvidia-config. If I do and restartx I’m stuck in RL 3. Looking at the xorg.config in RL 3 I see the driver is label as “nvidia” as opposed to “nv” as it was before. I am not sure what other settings may be causing the conflict though. I tried to edit the file but not sure how to save the changes under runlevel 3. I know something is amiss because my 3D is not working, glxgears before I restart X gives a screen error of some sort, and I do not have an option in Sax2 to extend my display to use my 2nd monitor.
What is the best way to fix this? install the newest dl from nvidia via runlevel 3? I haven’t had to do this since the openSuse 10.x days. Any thoughts gurus? Pardon the general description of the problems, I am at work and I was half asleep at 1a.m. when I was really looking at it to fix it.
Theoretically I suppose this thread should be moved to Hardware. Sorry…
Have you tried the latest driver downloaded from nvidia. Save it to your /home/username
Then follow this:
Alright so here is how to install the nvidia driver manually, in case the one in the repo doesn’t work or u just want to use the latest.
Go to Yast>Software>Software Management
Search for and install if you don’t have these:
make
gcc
kernel-source
Now download the latest Nvidia driver:
Place the file in your /home/username
Now restart and at the boot screen, pause the boot by moving the down button, then move back up and clear any text in the boot arguments by holding backspace. Then just type the number: 3
At the login
Type “root” then enter and then your root password and press enter.
now type
cd /home/username
*Now remember you can use the {TAB} key to auto complete
so type:
sh NVIDIA{TAB}
and the whole file name should auto complete
eg: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.09-pkg1.run
Follow the installer and let it compile the kernel module for you.
Say Yes to everything
Use TAB to move around
reboot
I downloaded it last night and installing it via runlevel 3 was my next step. I just didn’t want to do it at 1 a.m. Thanks for finding that for me Caf. I’ll keep you posted.
Thanks. I may even update my sig when all is well.
After compiling the kernel module you have to config your X-Server with:
sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia
Alternative can change “nv” to “nvidia” in your xorg.conf by hand (if you are sure the nvidia kernel module is loaded).
The first part is OK, the second is not. Just setting the driver from ‘nv’ to ‘nvidia’ is basically OK, but you miss a lot. Sax2 generates a configuration based on both card and monitor. Just changing the driver name, might very well leave you with wrong mode-lines, syncing etc.
So configure X through ‘sax2 -r -m0=nvidia’. You only have to do this once.
Thanks guys,
It took me every bit of 2 minutes to fix it. I already had the driver downloaded. The setup needs a lot less input then what it used to be like. I installed and ran the sax2 command and everything works great now. Thanks for the help. CASE CLOSED!
p.s. I love these forums. I also created a mount point in my fstab for a MY BOOK 500gb external and only had to do a simple hardware thread search for the help.
Next up- customize a WINE installation so I can play COD 4! Haven’t started yet…