[email protected] schrieb am 27.12.05 15:50:02:
> 
> 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 can antivate it for download in YAST, but after downloading, Suse still uses 
nv, even after a reboot. A friend of mine also hast Suse 10.0 and a NVidia 
Geforce FX something, and the Suse NVidia drivers are working fine for his 
card. Just not for mine.

> 
> >  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
> 
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