On Tuesday 15 February 2005 10:27 am, David Studholme wrote:
Wayne,
It might be that you can alleviate your problem by simply replacing "nv" with "nvidia" in /etc/X11/XF86Config.
Many thanks but i have resolved it now (sort of)
I had actually fallen back to "nv" when the "nvidia" driver was failing to load, usually when replacing the kernel I simply do the following
cd /usr/src/linux make cloneconfig make prepare-all sh NVIDIA-linux-x86_64-1.0-blah-pkg2.run -q --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux
because I have always been using the nvidia closed driver I never need to change anything in the X configuration.
This method has always worked in the past for me,
however for some strange reason doing the above followed by sax2 -m 0=nvidia resolved my issue. I don't understand why as XF86config already had the "nvidia" bit set.
Even now however those steps only work with 6111, any of the later drivers get stuck at the white nvidia splash as X starts or result in a very corrupted KDE (window borders not getting drawn, artifacts when moving windows and the Nvidia splash logo appearing in place of my desktop).
Now of course 'normally' on SuSE you would simply add the NVidia drivers from the SuSE packages provided by YoU, however I had a bad release a while back and had to revert to doing it the manual way to obtain a different version of the driver to the broken ones SuSE were providing at the time.