[ale] Don't trust Yast!

Patrick Trettenbrein patrick.trettenbrein at gmx.net
Mon Mar 14 14:01:00 EST 2005


Am Montag, 14. M?rz 2005 18:42 schrieb Orri Rail:
> After 2 weeks of (unsuccessfully) trying to get my 20"
> lcd in 1600x1200 res. with nvidia fx5200, have I
> finally found the problem.
>
> Yast doesn't update the nvidia drivers, even though it
> claims success!  The correct binaries are downloaded,
> but the current/old drivers aren't updated.  (Nvidia
> even promotes using Yast for Suse users.)
>
> Only after manually running the nvidia driver scripts,
> do I (finally) have the right resolution working.
>
> Orri

How did you run the scripts yourself? I've got a FX5200 here too and a fresh 
SuSE 9.2 installation. YaST downloaded the nvidia-drivers, but I can't 
activate them in SaX.

Greetings
Patrick

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