Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (342 mails)

[Chad Whiting <cwhiting@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

	I have not tried getting it strait from nvidia and compiling again, that may 
work, I think the last time I tried it I had an error about not being able to 
compile for the kernel, but it's worth a shot. At least you can use the 
command line to try this.

The issue arrises after you have started xdm, you can't get anything off the 
tty's etc...., just a black screen.

On Tuesday 08 February 2005 10:49 am, Pierre Patino wrote:
> Chad Whiting wrote:
> >I have not tried anything but reinstalling nvidia drivers yet.  if you
> > boot into init 3 it works on command line, but if you try to start xdm
> > you get the black screen and nothing else.  The following is not a flame,
> > but I think it has some relevance here:
> >
> >	If anyone from SUSE is reading the message boards, and I'm sure you are
> > aware of the problem, it would be really nice if when updating you could
> > make sure that at the least everything works.  I stopped using SuSE at
> > one point because of an issue very much like this, and would really like
> > to continue to use and recommend SuSE, but this really sucks to be
> > honest.  Especially having come back to SuSE after this kind of thing
> > seemed fixed with the 9 series. Maybe i'm being too harsh but you don't
> > win anyone over with this kind of mistake... (ok, off the soap box I go)
> >
> >I would really like to be able to fix this without having to
> >reinstall...etc... If that is not the case I think I will just switch to
> >something else and be done with it. (maybe gentoo can update
> > successfully?)
> >
> >On Tuesday 08 February 2005 10:21 am, you wrote:
> >>I'm afraid that you are one of many who have experienced this. I'm afraid
> >>that I fscked my system completly by trying to fix it. It would appear
> >>that this is due to the kernel upgrade. I loaded up the installation DVD
> >>to see if I could repair the damage and seem to have now lost internet
> >>connectivity.
> >>
> >>Any ideas on how to recover my system? It is 9.1 AMD-64. I'm
> >> contemplating getting the 9.2 distribution and updating. Does this sound
> >> like it might be the right way to go?
> >>
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>Bill
> >>
> >>On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Chad Whiting wrote:
> >>>Don't know, I will have to try that later when I get home. Any other
> >>>ideas are surely still welcome if anyone knows exactly what has caused
> >>>this.
> >>>
> >>>On Tuesday 08 February 2005 8:43 am, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> >>>>Chad Whiting wrote:
> >>>>>I think pherhaps the kernel update is the culprit? anyone else have
> >>>>>this problem?  How can I fix this?
> >>>>
> >>>>Just a thought, but does running depmod -ae in the modules directory
> >>>>fix it? --
> >>>>Joe Morris
> >>>>New Tribes Mission
> >>>>Email Address: Joe_Morris@xxxxxxx
> >>>>Registered Linux user 231871
>
> I had the same problem. I've now disabled auto-updating the kernel. I
> had to download, recompile and reinstall the nvidia driver straight from
> www.nvidia.com. I unfortunately had to use a different graphics card
> momentarily to get my browser to work so I could pull the stuff in.