Re: [opensuse] Have video, finally, but no 3D for my Nvidia 8600GT

2007-10-10 Thread James Ruhsam
Okay I guess that I was wrong. I just rebooted into Linux and was greeted by a text login again. After logging in I was unable to get startx to run. I had to use the information from my last email to correct xorg.conf and get a window environment again. The cp /etc... I have pasted, below,

Re: [opensuse] Have video, finally, but no 3D for my Nvidia 8600GT

2007-10-10 Thread Aniruddha
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 03:46 -0400, James Ruhsam wrote: Okay I guess that I was wrong. I just rebooted into Linux and was greeted by a text login again. After logging in I was unable to get startx to run. I had to use the information from my last email to correct xorg.conf and get a

Re: [opensuse] Have video, finally, but no 3D for my Nvidia 8600GT

2007-10-10 Thread Lew Wolfgang
James Ruhsam wrote: Okay I guess that I was wrong. I just rebooted into Linux and was greeted by a text login again. After logging in I was unable to get startx to run. I had to use the information from my last email to correct xorg.conf and get a window environment again. The cp /etc...

Re: [opensuse] Have video, finally, but no 3D for my Nvidia 8600GT

2007-10-09 Thread James Ruhsam
Aniruddha wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 06:44 -0400, James Ruhsam wrote: I have an Insignia, BestBuy red headed step child, monitor. I found the information for the monitor and tried to input it in, but Sax2/Yast2 do not like the information and dies during the video test, with complaints.

Re: [opensuse] Have video, finally, but no 3D for my Nvidia 8600GT

2007-10-09 Thread Aniruddha
Ok lets recap, you have adjusted your xorg and now your monitor works? If so let's get 3d working. Add the nvidia repository to yast: yast2 - Software - Community Repositories and install the nvidia-gfxG01 driver for your kernel. Manually adjust xorg.conf (nano -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf) again to