Nvidia geforce 6600 hell!!!!

[toastydave]

Hi all,

This is my first jaunt in to Linux, and I decided to use SuSe 10.2 as my distro

I Have had no end of trouble trying to get my graphics card to work well, and I wonder if any one can help?

When I first booted from my fresh install, if I ran at a colour depth of 24, I just got screen corruption, I fixed this by reducing the screen depth to 16.

This worked, but with the strange effect of no mouse icon!

So then I used Yast to download the proper drivers from Nvidia.

I then configured the card with sax2 from run level 3.

this kind of worked, but from the nvidia web site I was advised to use nvidia-xorgconfig.

I now seem to have three control panels on my system and none seem to say the same thing!

I have the sax2 configuration utility, this has no mention of refresh rate, but the correct resolution.

The Screen resolution tool, which has no idea wants going on, offering refresh rates of 51 and 55Hz

And the nvidia xserver tool, which seems to be the master. (I can check the actual resolution and refresh, by pressing a button on my LCD monitor)

The problems I have are;-

Fonts look very bad, no ware near as sharp as windows

And also in desktop 3d effects it has the wrong video card listed, although I can kind of get it to work. I think this came from an attempt to clear the first problem when I exited to runlevel 3 and ran sax2 using an generic driver..

Anyone? Any help?

Thanks

[a7v]

I assume you're using a TFT/LCD monitor (flat screen)?
If so, the font problem can be solved by enabling "Sub-pixel hinting" somewhere in the KDE/Gnome controls.

[toastydave]

Thanks A7V

its the best so far! yes it is an LCD, strangely the fonts seem to work best with, monochrome with sub pixel rendering and quite poor with sub pixel smoothing as recommended for LCDs!

anyway its mostly working but I still have problems with fonts in firefox now see screen shot on the link below

http://www.toastydaves.co.uk/ffox.png

thanks

dave

[pe1chl]

It looks OK on the screenshot.
Or maybe you should know that it is not going to get better than that in Linux.

[gnutux]

I don't see any problems. I use the same card and same distro as you do, but I use KDE instead.

gnutux

[toastydave]

thanks guys, spose thats just how it is! It looks ok now after making many adjustments

thanks

[pe1chl]

You may want to doublecheck that the resolution of your desktop is the same as the native resolution of your display.