Configuration of Nvidia-Chipset-based graphic cards (since SuSE 7.1)

Support knowledgebase (sliesch_behling_nvidia_configuration71)
Applies to

SuSE Linux: Versions since 7.1
XFree86: Version 4.0.2

Request:

You installed SuSE Linux (7.1 or higher) and you have a graphic card with one of the following chipsets: Riva TNT, Riva (Vanta) TNT2, GeForce 256 (DDR), GeForce2MX, GeForce2GTS. During the installation you activated the 3D-support, but you don´t have the neccessary capacity for the 3D-support that your hardware should perform.

Procedure:

Install the latest Nvidia-driver

    
    preposition:
    
    The installation is without guarantee, due to the varying and often unreproducible behaviour of the respective
    graphic cards with the drivers from NVidia.
    
    The installationsupport isn´t able to help you due to the various sources of errors. 
    
    
  1. Please download the optimized Nvidia-drivers from the following URL:
    
    

    http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux

    - and search for the actual packages (NVIDIA_GLX + NVIDIA_kernel)
  2. Mount if required the directory/device where the downloaded files are placed, in case that they do not exist in a standard directory like e.g. /tmp/ or /home/
  3. Start YaST and choose the following topics and confirm them with enter/return
    
            Package Management
            Install packages
            Source
            choose a directory (e.g. /cdrom/)
    
    
  4. Markthe downloaded packages with spacebar and install them by pressing F10. Exit YaST. Afterwards please execute the following command: ldconfig as root and reboot your system. Accordingly execute in a root-shell/console the command:
    
    /usr/X11R6/bin/switch2nvidia_glx
    
    
  5. Now you can ckeck the hardware-acceleration: Open a shell/console on the desktop an type
    
    /usr/bin/gears
    
    

    to test the framerate.

    
    Info: In case of a Pentium III 500 with the GeForce2MX-card approx.
          1700 Fps should be displayed.
    

    Keywords: NVIDIA, GEFORCE2GTS, GEFORCE2MX, TNT2, VANTA, GLX, UPDATE, XFREE86, 4.0.2, 3D

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