[plug] nvidia/suse 7.3 blues

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, John Knight wrote:

> Hey up! :)
> 
> Anyway, on a mate's PC, we turned it into a SuSE 7.3 box. He's got an nVidia 
> card so I went to install the drivers. The drivers installed properly but 
> they didn't work. Why? Because nVidia drivers use XFree86 4 as they rightly 
> should, but SuSE, in an effort to be "funky", have 4 installed but have all 
> the configuration files in the standard XF86Config file  (utilised by 
> version 3) instead in the XF86Config-4 file, where it should be.

You're running X4 and X3 configurators wont work.

You can use "X -config" to build an X4 file and then modify that to suit the
NV drivers.


Yours Tony.

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