GeForce4 MX440, no 3D acc. with SuSE 8.2

[nicola.dinisio]

Hello,
I have just installed SuSE 8.2 on my system and I can't get 3D acceleration to work. I install the NVIDIA GLX drivers (in NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4349.run), then I switch to runlevel 5, and as soon xdm service is called the screen switch to "blank". It just the screen, the system keep running, but I'm forced to restart the machine, remove the driver (starting in rescue mode) and then I restart the machine and the X-server works again.

My system has the following pieces:

Video card: ASUS V9180 Magic/T 64MB-DDR GeForce4 MX440-8x
Motherboard: ASUS A7V8X SoA VIA Apollo KT400 USB2
Processor: AMD Athlon 2000+
OS: SuSE 8.2 plain vanilla.

Unfortunately I don't have the file /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0 so I don't know how to fetch my video card BIOS revision. But the KDE hardware information applet tells me that the revision of the video card is 162 and that it has GLX extensions...
You find attached my XF86Config file (renamed as XF86Config.txt).

I hope someone has the right answers ;)

Cheers
Nicola

[bwkaz]

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9927

Known problem with KT400 and AGP 8x.

[nicola.dinisio]

Thanks bwkaz!
3D it works fine now :)

I'm just upset that the driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4349.run didn't work out of the box. It looks like an old problem (dating at least 6 months ago) so I wonder why the driver didn't tackle it...

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by nicola.dinisio
It looks like an old problem (dating at least 6 months ago) ??? How do you figure? The thread I linked to had its first post exactly one week ago...

[nicola.dinisio]

Sorry,
I read the registration date of Andy Mecham (Registered: Jul 2002) instead of the post date!!! :rolleyes:

It was late in the night.... I'd better went to bed ;)
Notwithstanding that I installed some 3D games and enjoyed them so much that this morning I came 40 minutes late to work...

thankx again (to Andy too)
Cheers

[bwkaz]

D'oh! I hate it when I do stuff like that. :D

[nileshbansal]

Originally posted by nicola.dinisio

I have just installed SuSE 8.2 on my system
Just one query, from where did you got SuSE 8.2. I am unable to find SuSE on any of the FTP sites.

[nicola.dinisio]

Originally posted by nileshbansal
Just one query, from where did you got SuSE 8.2. I am unable to find SuSE on any of the FTP sites.

I bought it on-line from SuSE (www.suse.de)