[ale] SUSE 10.2 w/Nvidia

[Paul Cartwright]

On Thursday 08 February 2007 13:22, Mike Harrison wrote:
> In xorg.conf change "nvidia" to "nv" for the 'generic' drivers..
>
> You may have to do some xorg.conf tweaking
> depending on your video card and the "nvidia" driver.
>
> Mine (nVidia GeForce4 448 on a HP zd7000 laptop ) needed:
>
> ? Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "True"
>
> added to the Screen section.
>
> ? You may also, depending on your card need:
>
> ? Option "AddRGBGLXVisuals" "True"
>
> and you may...
> in a section called Extensions (Create it if it does not exist to try it)
>
> ? ?Section "Extensions"
> ? ? ?Option "Composite" "Enable"
> ? ?EndSection
>
> Most of the clues on my system were in /var/log/Xorg.0.log
ooooh, this is neat, so I have a pre-release version???:

This is a pre-release version of the X server from The X.Org Foundation.
It is not supported in any way.
Bugs may be filed in the bugzilla at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/.
Select the "xorg" product for bugs you find in this release.
Before reporting bugs in pre-release versions please check the
latest version in the X.Org Foundation git repository.
See http://wiki.x.org/wiki/GitPage for git access instructions.

X Window System Version 7.1.99.902 (7.2.0 RC 2)
Release Date: 13 November 2006
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.99.902
Build Operating System: openSUSE SUSE LINUX
---- then later in the log:

(--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation GeForce 7300 LE rev 161, Mem @ 0xdd0
00000/24, 0xc0000000/28, 0xde000000/24, BIOS @ 0xdfe00000/17
and a bunch more lines of addresses, etc...
and later:
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
(II) Loading extension X-Resource
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so
(II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 7.1.99.902, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3
(==) AIGLX enabled
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "v4l"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//v4l_drv.so
(II) Module v4l: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 7.1.99.902, module version = 0.1.1
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0
(II) LoadModule: "nv"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nv_drv.so
(II) Module nv: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 7.1.99.902, module version = 1.2.0
        Module class: X.Org Video Driver
   ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.0
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Paul Cartwright
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