On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 15:08 +0100, Christian Lange wrote: > Hi > > I have installed Suse 10.0 this morning. Everything worked fine. My > Graphics card is "NVidia GeForce 2 Ti". Since the "nv" driver that is > built into Suse doesn´t support 3D, and the nvidia-driver, which I can > download using YAST, does not do anything at all (big *slap* for the > Suse developers),
And what makes you think it does nothing? Works fine for probably everybody else. Just take a look at the frame rate difference between the two. > I decided to download and install the original NVidia driver. So I > got "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run" (later versions do not > support the GeForce2 Ti any more - I don´t know why). > "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run -q" installed the driver, a > kernel module was built, successful. Afterward, i executed "sax2 -m > 0=nvidia" to configure my screen. 3D Support was available at this > point and I was happy. :) > But after a reboot, the driver didn´t work anymore. I searched the > internet and found out that I have to modify > the /etc/udev/static-devices.txt and add these lines: > nvidia0 c 195 0 666 > nvidia1 c 195 1 666 > nvidia2 c 195 2 666 > nvidia3 c 195 3 666 > nvidia4 c 195 4 666 > nvidia5 c 195 5 666 > nvidia6 c 195 6 666 > nvidia7 c 195 7 666 > nvidiactl c 195 255 666 > Now everything was working fine, event a reboot could not destroy the > diver module. > > Then, I made an online update using YAST. Since I have done this > update, the nvidia driver doesn´t work anymore (I could use "nv" > instead, but this does not provide 3D-Support). dmesg told my > something about it, and I think the important lines are: > nvidia: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag. > nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. This is -not- an unusual occurrence. The VMware modules do the same thing. > nvidia: Unknown parameter `NVreg_DeviceFileUID' > > What is this? How can the module "taint" the kernel? A new > installation of the driver doesn´t solve the problem. > > Thanks, Chris > > > ======================== > Full dmesg: It was -NOT- necessary to send the entire dmesg output to only show that the module "taints" the kernel. > nvidia: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag. > nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. > nvidia: Unknown parameter `NVreg_DeviceFileUID' > nvidia: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag. > nvidia: Unknown parameter `NVreg_DeviceFileUID' > nvidia: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag. > nvidia: Unknown parameter `NVreg_DeviceFileUID' -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
