Re: [LUG] NVidia Drivers + SUSE 9.0

[Keith Abraham <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gemma Peter wrote:

> I installed the drivers for my nvidia graphics card last night. I'm not
> sure if I installed it correctly.
>  
Open the console and type:-

3Ddiag

3Ddiag will tell if it thinks the drivers are installed correctly.

> Originally SUSE had a 'dummy' driver that was installed to take the
> place of the official driver (which for some reason couldn't be included
> on the CD). The dummy driver doesn't have 3D hardware acceleration
> support though.
>  
Nvidia doesn't have an open source policy but allows you to download the
drivers for free.

> I downloaded the official nvidia driver and followed the instructions.
> In Sax2 it still doesn't allow me to check the 3d acceleration option
> and gives a message that I need to install the official drivers.
>  
Have you the larest Nvidia driver? There has been some problems with
earlier drivers. Incidently the 4620 beta version a neat little 
"tweaker" and
didn't need any intervention with Sax2  The lastest driver I am aware of is-

NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run

It has a built in installer. See the readme on the Nvidia site.

(Always remove the older version with nvidia-installer --uninstall before
installing the new version)

> There was a note in the readme that it would do this but how do I tell
> whether the 3D acceleration support is _actually_ enabled?
>  
Open the console and type:-

gears

This will show you the fps.

Keith

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