[plug] nvidia/suse 7.3 blues

[John Knight]

Oh, cheers mate! Thanks to Christian Müller as well! I have the problem of 
not being 'l33+', but I am learning the delicate art of how to become l33+. 
;)

Thanks again guys!
nhoJ

> > 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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