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Crunchy(Cracked)Butter:
I got said drivers for my Gf2 and the damn thing doesn't work, i cannot enable 3d on my system.  If i do the system locks up at login and i have to go into the command line and work through YAST in order to unable the cards 3d abilities.  Any one know of this happening to them and what the work around was?

I use SuSE 8.1 and i did download the official drivers from SuSE and not used the rpm's from nvidias website since they are even worse for my system.

voidmain:
I had similar problems until I read the directions carefully. And I would use the drivers from NVidias site:

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_1.0-3123

I also would suggest that you get the kernel SRC RPM and rebuild it yourself, at least make sure you get the right driver for the right processor and SuSe version. I have RedHat 8.0 and for me it was as easy as installing the Athlon kernel RPM and the GL RPM, then editing my XF86Config and changing "nv" (the builtin XFree nVidia Driver) with "nvidia" (the proprietary nVidia driver). I may have had to use the SRC RPM over the precompiled Athlon Kernel RPM but at any rate it works perfectly now.

mobrien_12:
I downloaded the kernel module source tarball ('cause I manually updated my kernel and the RPM wouldn't have detected that correctly) and the source rpms for the rest.  I got all directly from the NV site.

Crunchy(Cracked)Butter:

quote:Originally posted by void main:
I had similar problems until I read the directions carefully. And I would use the drivers from NVidias site:

http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_1.0-3123

I also would suggest that you get the kernel SRC RPM and rebuild it yourself, at least make sure you get the right driver for the right processor and SuSe version. I have RedHat 8.0 and for me it was as easy as installing the Athlon kernel RPM and the GL RPM, then editing my XF86Config and changing "nv" (the builtin XFree nVidia Driver) with "nvidia" (the proprietary nVidia driver). I may have had to use the SRC RPM over the precompiled Athlon Kernel RPM but at any rate it works perfectly now.
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Okay i will try, i will also register at the nvidia forum as well.  Thanks void main.

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