Hi, sorry for my poor englesh
I`am trying to install drivers for a very old graphics card GeForce2 GTS/Pro on Suse 11.2.
I downloaded driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-71.86.13-pkg1.run and install it successfully. But when I launch “sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia” it crushes with error “isax: could not import file: /var/cache/sax/files/config at /usr/sbin/isax line 199”
Error messages from Xorg.0.log
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules//drivers/nvidia_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module “nvidia” (loader failed, 7)
(EE) Failed to load module “nouveau” (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (NVIDIA X driver not found)
And from SaX.log
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules//drivers/nvidia_drv.so
(II) UnloadModule: “nvidia”
(EE) Failed to load module “nvidia” (loader failed, 7)
(EE) No drivers available.
I stuck with this. What this thing wants from me? I really need hardware acceleration
Did the proprietary driver install ok ? Confirm your PC has only 1 graphic device, and not two (ie not 1 on mother board and 1 on PCI card).
Instead of “sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia” did you try “nvidia-xconfig” ? Note you need to run that from a full screen text mode in run level 3 and not from a small terminal on your desktop.
The driver installation was ok (I think), progress bar reach 100% and then it says that it was ok.
Yah, I totaly forgot that I have second video card on the motherboard. Is it important?
I tried nvidia-xconfig, but I recive a message that there is no such command.
No, same erorrs:
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules//drivers/nvidia_drv.so
(II) UnloadModule: “nvidia”
(EE) Failed to load module “nvidia” (loader failed, 7)
(EE) No drivers available.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
I google it and found that maybe my problem is, that I need the older version of xserver. Could it be? And how to change it?
Try the driver from the NVIDIA repo. You should have the legacy one. Don’t expect too much of it on the 3D part.
Then: remove/rename /etc/X11/xorg.conf, it’s become obsolete, restart X. Let the autodetection and -configuration do the job. Get back here with results.
BTW Some MX400 cards didn’t work with sax2’s generated xorg.conf, they did without.
Could it be you installed the wrong proprietary driver for your hardware?
Doubtful, I’m using almost same (71.89) drivers under XP and its works fine. And according to this page Supported Products List I need only 71.86.xx
Then: remove/rename /etc/X11/xorg.conf, it’s become obsolete, restart X. Let the autodetection and -configuration do the job. Get back here with results.
I found only /etc/X11/xorg.conf.install. Deleted it, no change at all.
Maybe you want to give the 96.43.11 version of the nvidia driver a try
I doubt that it fits for my videocard. And this version refuse to compile.
I googled again and according to this page (HCL/Nvidia Video Cards - openSUSE) if I understand it right, than I need SUSE 10.1, 10.2
>> Maybe you want to give the 96.43.11 version of the nvidia driver a try
> I doubt that it fits for my videocard. And this version refuse to
> compile.
>
I ask myself if you did try the legacy drivers in the nvidia repository, it
is now for a long time that these drivers work for me (several years ago I
always had to compile them)out of the box (and this is the version I refered
to)
I understood that you card has the MX400 chip (but maybe I misunderstood),
what makes you assume version 96 will not work with your card? (I also know
that it’s not only the chip which matters)
btw you can not compare the same version of the driver for windows with the
driver for linux (if one of them works and the other not I am not surprised,
this are complety different pieces of software)
I ask myself if you did try the legacy drivers in the nvidia repository
Nope.
I understood that you card has the MX400 chip (but maybe I misunderstood)
I have GTS version. I think it differs from MX series.
Ok. Today I’ve installed Suse 10.3 and seems to me (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-71.86.13-pkg1.run) driver works just fine. SaX2 starts without errors and glxinfo | grep rendering reports direct rendering: Yes.
But now I can’t start Blender >:( /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7’ not found I think this means that I need newer version of Suse (where driver doesn’t work).
And I’ve got stretched desktop. When I try to change resolution Sax displays message: SaX2 cannot offer activation of the 3D subsystem because your graphics card/driver doesn’t support 3D.
There is a command and it comes with the proprietary driver. That tells me that something went wrong in your efforts to install the proprietary driver.
Please don’t shoot the messenger, but I assume you know that has to be run with root permissions, else you will get an error message that there is no such command.
I’m new to linux, but even now I can’t find this command:
jinru@linux-cuvv:~> sudo -s
root’s password:
linux-cuvv:/home/jinru # nvidia-xconfig
bash: nvidia-xconfig: command not found
I think I’ll reinstall suse 11.2 and install driver through nvidia repository (can’t remember if I tried it already) omg
This is how to get it working in a couple of steps. Open a terminal window and do:
cd ~/
wget ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/96.43.16/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.16-pkg1.run
This will download the driver for your card. I checked, it’s supported. Now we’re going to install it. Print this message to have it with you. Logout and hit Ctrl-Alt-F1.
Login with username and password. Invoke following commands (exact):
su -c 'init 3' (enter rootpassword)
su -c 'mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.obsolete' (enter rootpassword)
Ok. I reinstalled suse 11.2, installed make, gcc, kernel-sources and ran online update (once again).
Today I learn that:
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.16-pkg1.run - totally wrong drivers for my video card. Text message tells that this driver doesn’t support this adapter and it still refuse to compile.
I don’t have any xorg.conf file (only xorg.conf.install)
When I attempted to install drivers from nvidia repository there was message, somthing about “can’t find xorg.conf”, but installtion was successful (I think so). And it still doesn’t work
Last month I gave an old computer new live by installing linux on it (I
tested several distros and was surprised that both linux mint and opensuse
worked well on it - my original guess was that I will end with debian or
some special distro for old hardware like antix - but this was not the
case).
There was only one thing which I was not able to get up and running
correctly - the graphics card - none of the drivers I tested worked.
I gave up on that for a moment (I have 15 years of linux experience and I am
a professional developer so compiling anything does not affect me at all -
but no luck, no clue, no nothing).
At the end - sleeping a night over it - I decided to buy a new card for this
machine (it has not even a free agp slot but only pci - not pci-e - really
plain old pci for the graphics adapter).
My investment was less than 21 euro including shipping for
and after pluggin that in installing the legacy nvidia driver from the repo
everything worked out of the box (desktop effects ok, google earth ok,
chromium bsu ok …).
After that I asked myself was it worth the trouble to play around for
endless hours to get the original piece of hardware up and running if an
investment of about 20 euro had saved my time.
My personal answer is no it was not worth it.
If you consider investing a few euros in that machine (and if it is a PC and
not a notebook) I guess it will save you a lot of time and frustration to
change the graphics card.
Maybe some others can still help you to make it work as it is now.
