Hi all,
many thanks for all replies concerning the graphics card problem.
Indeed a nVidia Quadro 4 380 GLX graphics card fulfills
*all* demand. Even more, the performance is superior in
comparison to Matrox G450/G550.
The essential key are the lines
Option "Overlay" "on"
Option "CIOverlay" "on"
in the "Screen" section of XF86Config.
We are using SuSE-Linux and this seems t be a little bit
more tricky than the preferred RedHat-Linux.
The default installation of the graphics driver starts
from nVidias web page:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-5336.html
You need the executable
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run
which does not contain the driver but the complete
procedure to get the driver sources and to compile them
for your platform. It is necessary to start this executable
within runlevel 3.
This works up to SuSE 9.0 Using SuSE 9.1 this executable
terminates with an error message.
For SuSE 9.1 start yast2, switch to "Yast Online Update",
choose "Next", choose "installable Patches" and check
the box for the nVidia drivers.
Unfortunately this driver is not perfect. This driver
offers only visuals using the default colour depths in
the "Screen" section of XF86Config. Reason unknown.
But now, you can run the above mentioned executable from nVidia
without error message and after this procedure all
visuals are available.
Using the nVidia Quadro 4 380 GLx graphics card it is possible without
any problems to use XWIN-NMR and Sybyl simultaneously.
I am very happy now.
Rainer Haessner
Received on Fri May 07 2004 - 16:29:22 MST