Linux Geeks Help me out with 7950Gt and Open Suse 10.2

[jaykishankrk]

Hi Linux Geeks, i wonder if somebody can help me out on this issue..

I'm running Suse 10.2 x86 and im having problems with 3D settings on my graphics card (BFGTech Geforce 512Mb 7950GT). I've installed the Lastest nvidia drivers from nvidia website, installation was smooth and working to some extent..

I think the 2D side of things is sorted but when i go to desktop effects, xGL thing, it says my card is not in the database so 3D is disabled

and it supports upto 24bit color scheme while windows xp can do 32 bit why is that so??

any help is well appreciated!!!

I DONT KNOW WHETHER THIS IS THE RIGHT PLACE TO QUERY, OS SECTION WAS NOT THE CHOICE AS THE ISSUE IS RELATED TO GPU.

MODS: if the topic has to moved to OS section, please do so

Thanks in advance,

 

[nullpointerus]

Originally posted by: jaykishankrk
and it supports upto 24bit color scheme while windows xp can do 32 bit why is that so??

Windows only does up to 24-bit color, too. The extra 8 bits are just for padding because unaligned memory accesses (i.e. not 8-, 16-, or 32-bit) have a speed penalty on x86. So you aren't loosing any color quality in SuSE.

 

[jaykishankrk]

Originally posted by: nullpointerus

Originally posted by: jaykishankrk
and it supports upto 24bit color scheme while windows xp can do 32 bit why is that so??

Windows only does up to 24-bit color, too. The extra 8 bits are just for padding because unaligned memory accesses (i.e. not 8-, 16-, or 32-bit) have a speed penalty on x86. So you aren't loosing any color quality in SuSE.

thanks for the info.... by the way do you know... the solution to my main problem..????

 

[nullpointerus]

No, I don't know. The last time I used SuSE was back around version 9 or something.

From the looks of your post, most likely you'll end up hand-editing the xorg.conf file to ensure that (a) Nvidia's official driver is loaded instead of the open-source one and (b) the correct combination of modules (i.e. XGL) is loaded. You can get help with such things via the nVidia driver package's Linux support forum:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14

But I believe there are packages for SuSE that will do this stuff for you automatically if you add the correct repositories. Again, I don't know much about SuSE. Every distro. seems to have their own correct "way" to do all the proprietary post installations. You might try locating a SuSE forum to get more specific help.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Does it look kinda like this? link

Cause if it does you can still enable the 3d desktop. Your card is not in the list, but you still have a card with 3d support with the proprietary driver.