On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 03:01:37AM +0000, Bryce Martin wrote:

I'm using SuSE 9 and my PC has an nVidia MX400 graphics card. My system doesn't have 3d graphics hardware support. This is because SuSE has stopped shipping with this feature, but the manual says you can still download this feature. But I've been to the nvidia site and can't find a driver that will do the job. Does anyone know what to do to get 3d graphics support for SuSE 9?

Hi there,

click this link http://www.nvidia.com/linux

Oh and be warned, there are reports of people having lots of trouble getting the drivers working and they are not free software and the latest release of these drivers seem to have more problems than many of the earlier drivers.

Adam

On Monday 19 January 2004 03:01, Bryce Martin wrote:

Does anyone know what to do to get 3d graphics support for SuSE 9?

You could run SuSE Online Update, one of the optional (as in not already been ticked) components should be the Nvidia Drivers, this may only appear if you are using the "nv" driver in your Xfree86 config. Which if you had the Gforce board when you installed 9.0 will be the case.

This will take you up to a less recent version of the drivers, download the other SuSE patches from online update. Restarting X should now result in a nvidia splash screen as X starts. Hardware 3D should be working now.

Once you have installed the Nvidia update, get the nvidia installer http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-5328 From a terminal drop to runlevel 3 with "init 3" typed as root Making sure you are still connected to the internet, run the installer.

Depending on whether or not you have installed the updated kernel that SuSE offers, the installer will either install the correct package or recompile it for your system (note SuSE 9 does not default install with a compiler so you may get an error here)

Once complete run "init 5" to start X