FW: [KLUG Members] suse 9.0 and toshiba

Brian Ritz members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 1 Jan 2004 21:10:56 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Chris Goron wrote:

thanks for the help Chris and Bruce I now have 1024x768 and using the 
whole screen and mouse has reappeared. Just needed the right driver. 

>I'm not sure you want the nforce drivers but the drivers under the
>graphics section instead:
>
>http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-5328
>
>There is a link for installing on SuSE that will give you install
>instructions as well on that page. Pay particular attention to the 3d
>support for SuSE 9.0 since Sax2 will return an error if you enable it
>but it says you can safely ignore since it's enabled by default anyways.
>
>(p.s. - I apologize if this comes through twice since I picked it up
>under another account as well)
>
>> 
>> > >OK, I've seen that too.  If you download and install the video driver
>> > >from nvidia.com, that problem goes away.  
>> > I have installed a driver from nvidia is the correct one? 
>> > NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0261.suse90.i586.rpm
>> 
>> I don't think so, at least I don't have any RPM named that on my system.
>> 
>> I just let the updater/installer install the drivers for me.
>> 
>> > Now will continue my trial and error oh the fun. :)
>> 
>> Try turning on 3D acceleration in the X setup and see if that helps.
>> 
>> > >With SuSE, you can do install the driver automatically from the
>> > >Software-> Online-Update screen (or one of the software screens).  
>> > >Just select the nvidia driver there.
>> 
>>  - BS
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