On Wednesday 26 December 2007 15:51, Roger Dedrick wrote: > I expected to someone else post a message about this but maybe I am > alone with this problem? > > I had been running 10.3 with a GeForce 7300GT video card with great > success. A few days ago the updater applet included updated nvidia > drivers in the list of available updates. After the update compiz > started acting weird. I tried to restart the xserver but could not > get it to start. I reset the video with Yast. I tried re installing > the one click nvidia drivers but if I run the commands to run Compiz > the xserver would run.
I have a GeForce 7300-based card and applied this update, too. When the update tray applet notifies me of available updates, I always run YaST and use the Online Update module rather than install via the tray applet. Immediately after installing the new driver packages (there were two), glxgears bombed, but I assumed that was library mismatch. I logged out (in order to effect a restart of the X server and the whole X subsystem). It seemed to take a long time to get the NVIDIA driver screen (which made me nervous), but it eventually showed up and I've had not problems since then. The only programs I use with regularity that use 3D are Google Earth and Second Life. Both of these seem to work fine. Glxgears works, too, of course. Occasionally I run Celestia or Stellarium, but I haven't ran since the driver update. I just gave them a quick launch just now, and they, too, seem to work OK. > So after a lot of reading a looking around realizing I am in over my > head in understanding this and thinking maybe there is some baggage > causing trouble and I would be further ahead (at least time wise) to > do a clean install since my home is on another partition. That done > I was in the same boat unable to get the drivers working and with a > slow desktop and unable to run a few programs without the 3D. I wonder if those experiencing problems are all compiz users? (I am not.) > I looked around the nvidia site and found drivers dated from Sept. > To install them I found that had to install the source files for the > kernel first. I'd stick with drivers vetted, built and distributed by the SuSE people. > ... > roger Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
