installing Nvidia driver

vlok stone vlokstone at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 14 09:44:56 EST 2004


not sureow it works in SuSe but I had to edit the 
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file. under 
module section it should have
 Load "glx" # 3D layer
driver section 
Driver "nvidia" #( not "nv" )

post a copy of your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file
if after making changes problems are still occurring

--- Timothy Domst <timothy.domst at verizon.net> wrote:
> I followed the instructions on the site,   I have
> SuSE 8.2 now and  
> booted into safe mode,  did "make cloneconfig &&
> make dep", did "sh 
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run", did "sax2 -m
> 0=nvidia" and went 
> through everything and it was kosher, went to the
> desktop, and tried to 
> reconfigure with the GUI sax2 and Yast2 and it
> wouldn't let me, it said 
> the filesystem was locked.  After I rebooted and
> tried to enable the 
> OpenGL 3D it said the required driver needed to be
> installed like I 
> hadn't installed it but I did.
> 
> Can anyone help?  I will have 9.0 and the manuals
> soon so it's not like 
> I will die without help, but I wonder what went
> wrong.
> 
> I was root all the time.
> 


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