via to nividia

[scrarfussi]

i'm currently using a onboard graphics card via and i just got a geforce 5200 from a friend now . i'd like to change from the via to nvidia can someone please give me some tips i'm running opensuse10.2

[Dooghy]

Disable the "via" on board graphic card from bios, plug in the nvidia geforce card and then install the drivers for it by using Yast (ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/10.2).

[daark.child]

You could boot into your openSUSE system (before changing the graphics card) and as root, edit /etc/inittab and change

id:5:initdefault:

to

id:3:initdefault:

After that shutdown your system and change the gaphics card. If the via card is onboard, then disable it (from the BIOS settings). After that boot into openSUSE and login to the command line interface as root. Run the command

sax2

That should help reconfigure your graphics card. Once sax2 has completed, exit as root, login as a normal user and enter the command

startx

If X runs successfully, edit /etc/inittab as root and change

id:3:initdefault:

to

id:5:initdefault:

You may also wish to use the official nvidia driver which is available from here.