Suse Linux 10.3 help requested

Technomage-hawke technomage.hawke at gmail.com
Sat Mar 1 21:36:41 MST 2008


On Saturday 01 March 2008, Frank Mandato wrote:
> Matt,
>
>   Thank you very much for your superfast answer.
>
>   Unfortunately, I am not good enough to install Gentoo, tried it a few
> years ago and I never could get it to work right, not their fault, my not
> knowing enough about Linux was at fault.
>
>    I have installed this system and I am running it as an X86_64, sorry I
> wan't clear on that.
>
>   Here is what I get when I "grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf"
> **********************
>   grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>   Driver       "kbd"
>   Driver       "mouse"
>   Driver       "nv"
> ***********************
modify the driver line to read "nvidia"
(this assumes you have nvidia.ko in your /lib/modules/'uname -r'/misc 
directory).

the included nv driver for opensuse just sin't up to more than 2d and 16 bit 
color.

>
>   "lsmod  |  grep nv" did not return anything at all.
>
>   Here is the output from "lspci | grep -i audio"
>
>    03:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS
>
>   When I go in to Yast to configure that sound card, it days say "legacy"
> so I thought that this is a legacy sound card.
>
>   Hope this helps. I did forget to mention that I have re-installed 10.3
> and that is why I do not have the downloaded Nvidia driver on it any
> longer.
>
>   Thanks Matt.
>
>   FrankM
>


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