Pierre Patino wrote:
OK, I should have disabled auto-update kernel in YaST. The problem: When I boot the system, the screen goes blank right at the end of the boot sequence, just at the point where the graphical login screen should appear. I had to disable S17xdm from rc5.d (from a telnet session) in order be able to login from the console. I then was able to insert a different graphics card and configure it to the point where I could enable S17xdm again in order to log-in and write this email. So, the question is this: Did the kernel upgrade screw up NVidia's proprietary driver? I now have 2.6.5-7.145 whereas the last kernel that worked was 2.6.5-7.111.30. Am I barking up the wrong tree?
I think you may be on the right path. I've got a newish nvidia card in the AMD64 box, and was seeing similar problems. In my case the card is hanging off a KVM switch, so does not see the monitor data, and so refuses to set up the monitor. Provided I set it up manually during the install, I can then get into graphics mode, but if I don't - blank screen at the same point. It does seem that there is a niggling problem with either just the nvidia driver, or more possibly linux startup, which is 'repairing' something which is not actually a problem. I've had a couple of instances when a later boot finds the monitor missing, and I have to set it up again - after getting back to the console mode ;) -- Lester Caine ----------------------------- L.S.Caine Electronic Services