I have an opensuse 11.1 64bit with latest kernel updates runing on a usb drive. OS was initially installed on an asus G1S laptop, and everything was working fine.
I changed the lapto to an asus laptop with an nvidia GeForce GT 240M video card. I just plugged in the usb to my ne laptop and after some reconfiguration got almost everything working.
Laptop starts fine (I am running gnome) and I can work fine as long as I don’t swicth to terminal mode.
If at any time I do Ctrl+Alt+Fx then my screen starts kind of flickering. This also happens everytime I shudown the laptop or if I put it to sleep, when it comes back. The only way to solve this is to restart the laptop.
Have you tried downloading the driver from NVidia and installing as root? Go to Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers and pick the driver for your card from the select lists. Then you will need to extract it using:
tar -xzf [filename].
You must boot to a command prompt without X running to install the driver so if you have your system set to boot to init level 3, then you’re good, otherwise you’ll have to log out of X and then find the .run file that is extracted then:
chmod +x [filename].run.
Next type in
./[filename].run
and that will install the latest Linux driver for your card.
It is a hard drive 320GB but through a usb connection. Didn’t have that problem with the previous laptop so I assume is either something in the driver or something in my configuration.