[ale] Don't trust Yast!

Orri Rail orrimaxrail at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 14 14:08:43 EST 2005


Goto 
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-7167.html


There's a README.TXT that has pretty thorough
instructions.  


--- Patrick Trettenbrein
<patrick.trettenbrein at gmx.net> wrote:
> Am Montag, 14. März 2005 18:42 schrieb Orri Rail:
> > After 2 weeks of (unsuccessfully) trying to get my
> 20"
> > lcd in 1600x1200 res. with nvidia fx5200, have I
> > finally found the problem.
> >
> > Yast doesn't update the nvidia drivers, even
> though it
> > claims success!  The correct binaries are
> downloaded,
> > but the current/old drivers aren't updated. 
> (Nvidia
> > even promotes using Yast for Suse users.)
> >
> > Only after manually running the nvidia driver
> scripts,
> > do I (finally) have the right resolution working.
> >
> > Orri
> 
> How did you run the scripts yourself? I've got a
> FX5200 here too and a fresh 
> SuSE 9.2 installation. YaST downloaded the
> nvidia-drivers, but I can't 
> activate them in SaX.
> 
> Greetings
> Patrick
> 
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