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Barney_DK
03-10-2005, 08:13 AM
After a long wait, my shiny new nvidia 6800GT card dropped through the letterbox this morning..
Before I race for the PC armed with a screwdriver, is there any special precautions I need to consider when changing to a new card in Suse 9.2?
I'm guessing that XF86Config will need to be updated, but will linux generally know that new hardware has been added and prompt me for details, or will I normally need to download the drivers first and do things in text mode?
Daedrus
03-10-2005, 10:03 AM
what was your previous card?
ph34r
03-10-2005, 10:05 AM
What kind of card do you have now? If it is nVidia based, you need to change nothing... Otherwise, you'll need to dl the nvidia accelerated driver, install it, and change your X config file.
Barney_DK
03-10-2005, 10:07 AM
Sorry. Forgot to mention that.
It is currently an ATI radeon 9600XT. flgrx drivers are installed but I was just worried in case the current configuration (with flgrx) conpletely confuses linux when it boots with an Nvidia card for the first time.
ph34r
03-10-2005, 10:20 AM
Boot to text-only mode the first time, remove the ATI config, add the nVidia drivers, change your X config, you should be good to go.
Barney_DK
03-10-2005, 10:22 AM
Ok.. Thanks for that.
Will give it a go tonight and hopefully be back to some nice looking gl desktops...
Daedrus
03-10-2005, 10:23 AM
Originally posted by ph34r
Boot to text-only mode the first time, remove the ATI config, add the nVidia drivers, change your X config, you should be good to go.
yeah, what ph34r said. Get the nvidia drivers from their site. They are fairly easy to install. Just make sure that you change inittab to default to init 3 and install the nvidia drivers from there.
Barney_DK
03-11-2005, 05:14 AM
Worked like a dream..
Thanks for the help guys.
Solved.
rocketpcguy
03-11-2005, 07:05 AM
if you have xorg instead of XFree86, you can now enable true window transparencies/shadows
Barney_DK
03-11-2005, 07:59 AM
Will try that at the weekend.
I'm not 100% but I think I am using xorg (KDE 3.3)
Although I am still on a high about seeing glxgears do 2 things..
Firstly. Not crash X
Secondly.. Return 7500 FPS instead of 200...
:)