Bug 115112

Please attach output of "hwinfo --gfxcard". Thanks. 

Well, yes, the same behavior is experienced by me, with my GeForce FX 5200 
card. 
 
One thing I think about - current drivers are only updated for BETA3, since 
BETA4 has newer kernel, it requires different driver. 

 
linux:/home/alexey # hwinfo --gfxcard 
20: PCI(AGP) 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) 
  [Created at pci.277] 
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_322 
  Unique ID: VCu0.u4xNycTFLBD 
  Parent ID: vSkL.S16qDHSKEeD 
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0 
  SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0 
  Hardware Class: graphics card 
  Model: "LeadTek GeForce FX 5200 (0x0322)" 
  Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation" 
  Device: pci 0x0322 "GeForce FX 5200 (0x0322)" 
  SubVendor: pci 0x107d "LeadTek Research Inc." 
  SubDevice: pci 0x2967 
  Revision: 0xa1 
  Memory Range: 0xe0000000-0xe0ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) 
  Memory Range: 0xd8000000-0xdfffffff (rw,prefetchable) 
  Memory Range: 0xe1000000-0xe101ffff (ro,prefetchable,disabled) 
  IRQ: 11 (no events) 
  I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) 
  Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000322sv0000107Dsd00002967bc03sc00i00" 
  Driver Info #0: 
    XFree86 v4 Server Module: nv 
  Driver Info #1: 
    XFree86 v4 Server Module: nvidia 
    3D Support: yes 
    Color Depths: 16 
    Extensions: 
    Options: 
  Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=yes, active=unknown 
  Attached to: #11 (PCI bridge) 
 
Primary display adapter: #20 
linux:/home/alexey #     
 

even throught it writes:  
===================== 
3D Support: yes  
===================== 
It has *no* 3D support in BETA4. Under BETA3 everything was OK. 

Also I don't know what means:   
 Driver Info #0:  
 Driver Info #1:  
 
anybody knows??? 

Sorry, but I need the feedback by the reporter. 

OK, here's my output for the hwinfo: 
 
" 
linux:/home/exigentsky # hwinfo --gfxcard 
34: PCI(AGP) 200.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) 
  [Created at pci.277] 
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_45 
  Unique ID: B35A.P3RBgzHdaw3 
  Parent ID: 6NW+.j5eDVgS7Ow6 
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:00.0 
  SysFS BusID: 0000:02:00.0 
  Hardware Class: graphics card 
  Model: "nVidia GeForce 6800 GT" 
  Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation" 
  Device: pci 0x0045 "GeForce 6800 GT" 
  Revision: 0xa1 
  Memory Range: 0xd9000000-0xd9ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) 
  Memory Range: 0xc0000000-0xcfffffff (rw,prefetchable) 
  Memory Range: 0xda000000-0xdaffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) 
  Memory Range: 0xdb000000-0xdb01ffff (ro,prefetchable,disabled) 
  IRQ: 10 (no events) 
  I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) 
  Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000045sv00000000sd00000000bc03sc00i00" 
  Driver Info #0: 
    XFree86 v4 Server Module: nv 
  Driver Info #1: 
    XFree86 v4 Server Module: nvidia 
    3D Support: yes 
  Config Status: cfg=yes, avail=yes, need=yes, active=unknown 
  Attached to: #24 (PCI bridge) 
 
Primary display adapter: #34 
" 

Strange. Please call the script behind the YOU patch manually as "root". 
 
 sh /var/lib/YaST2/you/scripts/fetchnvidia.sh 
 
And attach the output. Thanks. 
   

And I do realize it says "3d Support: yes" in the output, but when I go to the   
YAST module called "Graphics Card and Monitor" the "Activate 3D Acceleration"  
option is all grayed out.  
  
Furthermore, when I started a 3D game called Chromium, I had this error:   
  
"  
Warning  
  
3D Hardware Support Not Available  
_____________________________________  
  
No 3D graphics card available or 3D support is not configured yet. However,  
the application uses or requires 3D hardware support.  
  
{Continue} {Abort}  
"  
  
When I continued, the game was extremely laggy, just moving over to the "Quit"  
menu was a monumental task.  

I asked you to attach the output of this script. Please do so. 

I know what you asked me for, but there was a mid air collision with my other   
comment and I had to post it after.   
   
Anyway, it doesn't seem to work, but here's the output:     
     
"     
linux:~ # sh /var/lib/YaST2/you/scripts/fetchnvidia.sh     
sh: /var/lib/YaST2/you/scripts/fetchnvidia.sh: No such file or directory     
linux:~ #     
"     
 
BTW: When I logged in as root, it again detected and informed about all the     
hardware with pop ups and kinternet crashed as did the network. It is just     
like the first time I booted SUSE with beta 4. See: 115113, 115114    
    
I'm really having a lot of problems that I did not have in Beta 3. But I don't    
think it is bad media because I downloaded it through Bittorrent and that has    
automatic integrity checking.    

Ok. Let's search for it: 
 
find /var/lib/YaST2/you -name "fetchnvidia*" 

OK, here's the output: 
 
" 
exigentsky@linux:~> su 
Password: 
linux:/home/exigentsky # find /var/lib/YaST2/you -name "fetchnvidia*" 
/var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update/10.0/patches/fetchnvidia.sh-52401 
/var/lib/YaST2/you/installed/fetchnvidia.sh-52401 
linux:/home/exigentsky # 
" 

The script is completely missing. I have no idea why. Please try the 
following: 
 
Inside YOU enable "Installable and Installed Patches" for "Show Patch 
Category" and select "Download NVIDIA(r) Graphics Driver" from the 
patches list (usually at the bottom of the list). Note, that you need 
to mark it as "Update" (right mouse click) if you already installed it 
before and the driver was uninstalled - for any reason. 

I alraedy did that after it first didn't work. But I will do it again.

Anyway, my hunch is that installing updates through YAST right after
installation ebfore first login is a bad idea. I've had problems with that
before. For example, in 9.2 (I think) afterr I did that, the bootup messages
were all on a black background and did not show the nice progressbar anymore. 

It works now!  
  
I just can't understand it though. I did the online update for Nvidia before  
even logging in and it didn't work. Then I did the same update, just as you  
pointed out after a restart and it didn't work. Now, finally, I did exactly  
what you said but also selected "Reload All Patches from Server" and rebooted. 
Suddenly it works and Chromium is actually fun to play. Strange! 

For whatever reasons YOU was even not able to download the script for 
downloading and installing the driver (see comment #13). I'll give it a try 
ASAP to see if this is a general problem to use the nvidia patch already 
during installation. 

... which works for me.