On Saturday 19 May 2007, Jerry Houston wrote: > Curtis Rey wrote: > > I hadn't thought about ATI cards and not using the binary drivers. This > > too would a viable course as well - for myself I use the 3d drivers > > because I game in Linux and without these the frames rates are more like > > a slide show. > > Thanks to _everyone_ for your suggestions. The first one was NVIDIA, > and mentioned that there is support for their cards. While I was out > picking up a copy of Pan's Labyrinth at Circuit City today, I found an > e-GeForce 7300 GS there, at a trivial price. Figuring that if it didn't > work for me here, I'd stick it in a Windows machine sometime, I went > ahead and bought it. > > It turns out the installation was pretty painless. (Well, there was > that thing about booting to console mode, but I used sax2 to reconfigure > the graphics, and all was well after that.) > > It sure made a difference! Just scrolling through a message in > Thunderbird, or a web page in Firefox was painful before. Now it works > great, and the Motocross game even recognizes it as a 3D graphics card. > > Again, thanks for all the suggestions. Luckily for me, the first > suggestion turned out to work well.
Just in case your interested. Go to the Nvida site and grab the Linux drivers program ( NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0.9755-pkg1.run) and put somewhere you can remember from the console. You can log out of the gui (gnome/kde/etc) and the go into the "log in to console" in the login gui. Then type in "root" and the root passward. Now type in "init 3" and then find the drivers and type "./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0.9755-pkg1.run". It will complain that it can't find a "pre-compiled" driver and ask to compile one - let it. The it will ask a few other things - most importantly it will ask to write the xorg.conf file. After it's done then run "modprobe nvidia" and it will load the kernel module. Then type "init 5" and your back in the gui login. Go into your desktop and bring up the console/konsole and type "glxinfo | grep render" and you should get: glxinfo | grep render direct rendering: Yes OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 7800 GS/AGP/SSE/3DNOW! GL_NVX_conditional_render, GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_lod, If you get something like "direct rendering: No" and it tells you it's using "MesaGLX" then you're using software. If you do get this make sure that these lines are in your xorg.conf file: Section "Module" Load "dbe" **** This is needed for more robust GL Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "extmod" Load "glx" ****** this give you hardware GL. Load "v4l" EndSection And also: Section "Device" BoardName "GeForce 7800 GS AGP" BusID "2:0:0" Driver "nvidia" *** if it reads "nv" then it's software - change it. Identifier "Device[0]" VendorName "NVidia" EndSection Another more painless way is to open up YaST2 and go to the "Installation Source" section. Click "Add" button, then select "URL" and got to the next step and add this URL: http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/10.2/ Now finish this and go into "Software Management". Then do a search for nvidia drivers and allow YaST to install it - the rest should be done behind the scenes. If you're having problems (due to hardware... mobo, vid manufacturer, etc) and you're not getting the results and don't want to fool around anymore, you can simply change the "nvidia" line back to "nv" and you'll be back to software mode and able to use you sys with software 3D. Before doing any of these check the xorg.conf file to see if this hasn't already happened - as above in the "Module" and "Device" sections. Remember - your mileage may vary. Cheers, Curtis. -- Spammers Beware: Trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! I don't want a politician I can believe in. I simply want a politician I can believe! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
