Problem loading software and it won't perform

[Tony_photoplus]

I have just loaded Suse and now its been running for just over 24 hours. I have download some software from the system and many of them are loaded but not running. For instance, I loaded Billiards, the icon bounces around fine, but no program appears, Thats not the only one I have 4 video programs I have tried and they do the same. I am slowly going through them and its disappointing. Is there a way to reload them properly? By the way I HAVE RELOADED on the installation program and that didn't help except use up my bandwidth

Thanks

Tony

[bigtomrodney]

What graphics card do you have?

Can you open up a terminal like Konsole or gnome-terminal and post the output of these commands

grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
lspci |grep -i vga

[Tony_photoplus]

What graphics card do you have?

Can you open up a terminal like Konsole or gnome-terminal and post the output of these commands

grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
lspci |grep -i vga

linux-ql69:/home/tony # grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf lspci |grep -i vga
grep: lspci: No such file or directory

You could be right and the graphics card is not set up right yet. In my hardware info it states Display Info
Vendor: Mesa Project
Model: Software Rasterizer
Driver: 2.1 Mesa 7.2

I have a NVidia 9400GT 512mb PCI-E
But not sure which to link to as I clicked
For all new NVIDIA cards (Geforce 6 and newer), click here:
Then it stated something if was not a something I would regret it. I have made a few mistakes already and lost everything. So can I ask if this is the right link before I cock things up again?

Thank you

Tony

[bigtomrodney]

I'm guessing you were looking at the one-click installers -

NVIDIA - openSUSE

You'll be safe enough to click the For all new NVIDIA cards (Geforce 6 and newer), click here: Green link.

[Tony_photoplus]

Thanks I see how it goes as Ihave downloaded the new NVidia settings

[gogalthorp]

You need to be root to run lspci
type
su
then root password note this does not echo to the screen!
then
grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
lspci |grep -i vga

are two separate commands it appears you were trying to do it on one line

You will need a 3D graphics driver for any 3D graphics

linux-ql69:/home/tony # grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf lspci |grep -i vga
grep: lspci: No such file or directory

You could be right and the graphics card is not set up right yet. In my hardware info it states Display Info
Vendor: Mesa Project
Model: Software Rasterizer
Driver: 2.1 Mesa 7.2

I have a NVidia 9400GT 512mb PCI-E
But not sure which to link to as I clicked
For all new NVIDIA cards (Geforce 6 and newer), click here:
Then it stated something if was not a something I would regret it. I have made a few mistakes already and lost everything. So can I ask if this is the right link before I cock things up again?

Thank you

Tony

[Tony_photoplus]

Its fine now and working thanks for your kind help.