Re: [LUG] NVidia Drivers + SUSE 9.0

[Gemma Peter <gemma.peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Open the console and type:-
>
> 3Ddiag
>
> 3Ddiag will tell if it thinks the drivers are installed correctly.

> Have you the latest 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)
I forgot to do this part.

> > 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

Thanks
I will try this out when I get home tonight.

Still i think the having to change run levels and stuff is far too
complicated. I now understand what ESR was saying about the Luxury of
Ignorance.


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