problem with Nvidea graphic in OpenSuse11.0

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Hi,
I have bought recently a DELL latitude E6500 laptop and intalled Open SUSE 11. The problem I am facing is that the graphic drivers are not working properly. (Display icons/fonts too large,) :frowning:

The garphic card is Nvidia Quadro NVS 160M 256 MB DDR3.
please suggest me wht to do?

thanks in advance.

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Are you using nvidia drivers from repositories?
Take a look to this:
NVIDIA - openSUSE
The repository:
http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.0/

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NVIDIA - openSUSE

Follow these instructions to the letter. Its not very hard even though its called “the hard way”. I tried “the easy way”, but it turns out its the “no worky way”.

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Yes it is now solved. Thanks a lot.
also the related link:

Opensuse 11 not detecting my graphics card - Digit Forum

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I have tried following those directions, but have a problem. When I try to run “sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.82-pkg2.run -q” I get an “Extraction failed” error.

I downloaded the file on my laptop and transferred it via a thumb drive. I don’t know how to get the file directly from the server from the command line, so this was my only option.

I am running openSuse 11.0 on an AMD Athalon 64 3200+ with an nvidia geforce fx 5200 card. I would really like to get to my GUI at some point…lol.

Any help appreciated.

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It looks like the drivers should already be installed through Yast, but still no GUI. I tried running “sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia”. It fails. from the log:

Fatal server error:
Can’t read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock

(WW) xf86CloseConsole: KDSETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor
(WW) xf86CloseConsole: VT_GETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor

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Hi
Have you installed the nvidia driver via 1-click? If not I recommend
the hard way, else follow the easy way here;
Nvidia

This is my canned response for doing it the ‘Hard Way’ :slight_smile:

If you have installed nvidia rpms via the easy way, I suggest removing
the downloaded rpms, and disabling the nvidia repository first.

You can download the driver for your arch from;
Nvidia Unix Drivers

On the download page, check that your card is supported by the driver
your about to download by using the following command;


/sbin/lspci -nv |grep VGA |cut -f4 -d ":"

From the above output use the four numbers from the output to look
at the Supported Products List (on the left) to verify your card is
supported by the driver.

For downloading the current version 177.82 (Note the wget and url are
all on one line)

for 32bit;


wget
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/177.82/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-177..82-pkg1.run

for 64bit;


wget
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/177.82/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.82-pkg2.run

You may wish to ensure your system is up to date. The first command
refreshes the repositories, the second lists any updates, the third
will apply the updates.


sudo zypper ref
sudo zypper lu
sudo zypper up

NOTE: If the kernel updated, please reboot before continuing :slight_smile:

If you don’t have the kernel source and tools etc installed then


sudo zypper in kernel-source linux-kernel-headers kernel-syms
sudo zypper in -t pattern devel_basis devel_C_C++

Press ctrl+alt+F1 and login as your user :slight_smile:


su -
init 3

cd to the Nvidia Unix Driver you downloaded


sh NV*.run -q
sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia
init 5 && exit
ctrl+alt+F1
exit
ctrl+alt+F7

The ctrl+alt+F7 gets you back to the GUI (X session).

Now after a kernel update, you don’t need to run the sax2 command, just
the others to get to run level 3, rebuild the driver and exit.

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default
up 2 days 9:23, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.19, 0.17
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.80

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Some of this is what I have been doing. I have not installed using 1-click, as I have no idea how to do that via the command line. I will uninstall the drivers and repository in Yast and then try your step by step tonight, as it has a few things tha I have not done.

Thanks

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malcolm:

I did everythng you listed. Started with uninstalling the drivers in yast and removing the repository, then did everything step by step.

I am still getting “Extraction failed” when running “sh NVIDIA…”

I have even tied the previous driver distribution, same outcome. The permissions for both the folder containing the files and the files themselves are set to a+rwx

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Got it to extract. Had to specify a --target. Also had to use the legacy drivers file for my card.

Still get the same error trying to run sax2

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Hi
Sounds like you may have a faulty download…

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default
up 9:01, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.05, 0.01
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.80