On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 01:57, John Pettigrew wrote:
In a previous message, Matthew Johnson
wrote: By the way you mentioned switch2nvidia was that just it? or did you mean switch2nvidia_glx?
The former - what's the difference between these commands?
Also 3Ddiag is worth running, it checks to make sure everything is set right with libraries etc.
Haven't got that far - need to get past the driver crashing the box first!
How is this going anyway John?
Not really had a chance to play further - as I said, the fact that each attempt takes the box down, requiring a reset and fsck means that it eats 25 minutes or so for each time I try it.
What it looks like to me is that that, for some reason, the driver is building something that's broken, because it invariably crashes my box when I try to use the nvidia driver (whether that's running sax2 [crashes as soon as it tries to bring up the gui] or issuing 'switch2nvidia' and 'init 5').
John
Boot into init 3 (from memory just type init 3 as a boot option in grub, when you see the grub splash screen on startup, simply type init 3). It will boot into run level 3 and you should not crash then. Did you install the SuSE 8.1 rpm's? rpm -q NVIDIA_GLX rpm -q NVIDIA_kernel To uninstall simply issue rpm -e NVIDIA_GLX and rpm -e NVIDIA_kernel. Also do 3Ddiag, will tell you a bunch of stuff. switch2nvidia_glx means switching on the 3D aspect of the driver (Load "glx" in section Modules in /etc/X11/XF86Config also make sure GLcore is not listed in that section either). What kernel version are you running again? Matt