[ale] GeForce 7300 NVIDIA card with linux

[Paul Cartwright]

On Saturday 10 February 2007 19:10, Dow_Hurst wrote:
> You shouldn't have to go thru this trouble. ?If you have installed the 9746
> package you can download directly from nvidia then you have to have the
> kernel source installed so it can compile the new module. ?Once that is
> done then it installs and says it is done. ?The last thing it asks is if
> you want it to configure your xorg.conf to point to the new driver. ?All
> this really does is change "nv" to "nvidia" in the device section of the
> xorg.conf. ?If you already had the nvidia driver available as a kernel
> module that I had posted is available via a yast2 repo at
> ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/10.2/ then you would need to make sure
> that was uninstalled before you installed the nvidia .run package. ?At
> least when I was learning this stuff on 10.1 I screwed up my nvidia
> install. ?Had to revert to the nv driver. ?Uninstall the nvidia packages
> via Yast2. ?And then finally install the latest .run package downloaded
> manually from nvidia. Hope this helps,
> Dow

after my full install of SUSE 10.2, I ran the NVIDIA...9746...run and it 
worked this time.
now when I run beryl I get:
 # beryl
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
Relaunching beryl with __GL_YIELD="NOTHING"
XGL Absent, checking for NVIDIA
Nvidia Present
beryl: No composite extension



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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800