SuSE Nvidia (XFree86-s3)

[Mike Rathburn]

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|From: filepro-list-bounces+filepro=datadoit.com at lists.celestial.com
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|Behalf Of Fairlight
|Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 3:14 PM
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|Subject: Re: Why SuSE 9.0 vs. 9.1?
|
|If you're running stock SVGA XFree86, with no nVidia, would it
|be due to a
|-lack- of drivers for it?  You're saying pTk programs fail on
|your system,
|but you're not using the custom drivers.  Are they that
|non-standard?  :)
|Actually, is that how it works?  Not having an nVidia
|anything, I'm just
|hazarding a guess that it's similar to XFree86-s3 and the
|like, where they
|have a separate core for the chipset.  Or is it implemented
|differently?
|
|mark->
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There's some info on the issue here:
http://www.suse.com/us/private/download/x11/

If you update your Nvidia drivers via YaST, you'll get a driver version that
doesn't support 3D Acceleration.  For that, go to the Nvidia site and look
for a file called:

NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.suse82.i586.rpm
or
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run

I had a problem on a workstation here, but YaST and Nvidia w/o 3D served my
needs.

-MikeR