On Tuesday 13 Apr 2010 16:30:38 Don Raboud wrote:

On April 13, 2010 09:18:34 am ianseeks@dsl.pipex.com wrote:

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Update - maybe its a duff XOrg - i removed nvidia drivers and went to "nv" and it didn't work either - "failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist) "Fatal server error: no screens found"

How did you switch to nv (The system shouldn't be looking for "nvidia" in that case)? There is a command "switch2nv" that should do the switch for you. I removed the nvidia stuff via yast and it assumed it had to use "nv"

If that doesn't work, I would first of all rename /etc/X11/xorg.conf (if it exists) to something else so you can get your original back.

Then you could try restarting X. I run "startx" and it worked until i rebooted then failed again. If that fails, I would do; as root:

init 3 sax2 -r -m 0=nv - Make any changes you want - accept init 5

That should get X running with the nv driver. Sort of works with "startx" but sax2 did not allow me to move the screen at all. it just ran like a batch job. When KDE was up, i couldn't start yast2 or key anything into a konsole.

looks like a reinstall - why does GUI config cause so much grief?? thanks for the advice -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tuesday 13 Apr 2010 16:43:15 Anders Johansson wrote:

On Tuesday 13 April 2010 14:43:49 ianseeks@dsl.pipex.com wrote:

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Hi all

I've stuffed my config by using "zypper dup" - it seems to have stuffed the Xorg/X11/Nvidia config as i can't load X now. its the old mismatch of Nvidia and X11-video-nvidiaG02, they are both 190.53 but the nvidia-gfxg02 is a couple of minor releases higher - is there any reason for them to produce these complimentary files on the Nvidia.com site when they don't match?

There was just an update to 195.36, could it be that you updated one and not the other?

I cant see how you can select a specific release, i can see all the versions on the nvidia site via FTP but yast/zypper doesn't allow you to pick. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 04/13/2010 06:44 PM, Anders Johansson wrote:

On Tuesday 13 April 2010 18:28:03 ianseeks@dsl.pipex.com wrote:

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I cant see how you can select a specific release, i can see all the versions on the nvidia site via FTP but yast/zypper doesn't allow you to pick.

Well, you can. In YaST you can go to the "versions" tab in the software management module, where you can select specific versions.

With zypper you can do just that by typing the version after the pacakge name: zypper in name-version even zypper in name=version works -- cheers, jano Ján Kupec YaST team ---------------------------------------------------------(PGP)--- Key ID: 637EE901 Fingerprint: 93B9 C79B 2D20 51C3 800B E09B 8048 46A6 637E E901 ---------------------------------------------------------(IRC)--- Server: irc.freenode.net Nick: jniq Channels: #zypp #yast #suse #susecz ---------------------------------------------------------(EOF)---