i installed the new drivers from the nvidia site itself, after a bit tweaking around i got it working.
It wouldnt load up right away, said no screens found. Did sax2 -r and fixed it.
Going into terminal (using su), i try to enable SLI support by typing:
nvidia-xconfig --sli=Auto
After exiting, and re-starting x, i get the no screens found again. So i go back to sax2 fix it again, but when i go into the nvidia manager, sli is not enabled…Any idea as to why is this happening?
I also have 2 cards set up in SLI. Here is what happens. Nvidia drivers installs and works. After adding the SLI option in the xorg.conf, the machine will not boot x correctly. In fact, x attempts to restart on tty7, and hangs. I reboot, to clear all processes, and run sax2, which switches to the other card! The black screen is on the card which should be screeen 0. X cannot make a successful configuration with the option in the file. Remove the option, it works. Since I run SLI, 11.1 will not work for me. Is this a SUSE issue? Nvidia? I have successfully ran SLI on several distros, including Mandriva, PCLinuxOS and openSUSE. I also tried the 86_64 version. So I went back to 10.3.
The same problem.>:)
I have 2 nvidia cards (7600GT) and with it an amount of problems. First the history. I began with suse 10.2 - at that time only 1 card and everything was good. Then I bought 2te card and with suse 10.3 everything was excellent - SLI and compiz function perfectly. Then comes 11.0 and it was quite bad - suse did not want 2 cards- with SLI display was black, but I tricked suse, while I installed nvidia drivers and compiz first with a card and then made the second. However, suse 11.1 cannot be tricked. I google and google, tried with different drivers, with sax2 and nvidia server settings configutation - everything in wain! With a 1 card is everything o.k., the second does not go. What should I do now - wait on suse 11.2 and hope, it would better handle with nvidia?
In Ubuntu getting SLI to work was a snap I just used the following.
sudo nvidia-xconfig --sli-auto
The trouble I have found with OpenSUSE 11.1 is after running that command in terminal, I couldn’t get back into KDE without running the following from su
don’t forget the -i switch, as it will prompt you before overwriting a file, in which case I always add a digit after backup so I can have multiple return points if necessary.
