J Sloan wrote:
A. den Oudsten wrote:
Those numbers indicate you are not using the nvidia drivers, and the
sysinfo confirms it.
That card should be well supported by the nvidia legacy driver,
available on their website.
I'm using a similarly aged card (GeForce 2) and I found that although
there were legacy drivers for it, they didn't work with the supplied
2.6.18.2-34 (IIRC) kernel. I couldn't find an older version of the
kernel through yast2. I've since added the packman repository, so I'll
look again.
<logs in>
<runs yast2 sw_single>
<waits...>
<waits...>
<waits...>
<browses web>
Ah! It's loaded... Well, searching for "kernel" there's only that
version. Ho hum.
But wait, I see it's worked for Mr Oudsten. I'll try again using the
"Easy Way" from http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA
OK, added key. Added repo. Starting yast2 sw_single... waaiiittting...
OK, added the packages.
Stopping xdm. Check /etc/X11/xorg.conf: nvidia not nv is referred to.
Starting...
Right, got this
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Error recovery failed.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1280x1024"
(WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA X driver has encountered too many errors.
Falling
(WW) NVIDIA(0): back to legacy PCI mode.
!! Not AGP?
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
(==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
(==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
(**) Option "dpms"
(**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
(II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Option "UseFBDev" is not used
And further up this:
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce2 MX/MX 400 at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 65536 kBytes
This seems a bit low. OTOH, 64Mb isn't too bad.
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 03.11.01.30.00
(II) NVIDIA(0): Detected AGP rate: 4X
So I may have some tweaking to do. But it looks like it's starting up,
which is better than before. I'll report back after testing it tonight.
Thanks for the pointer!
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