What mobo do you have, might be a bios issue. I have an Abit BE6-II with softbios III. The agp port setting have a parameter for transfer: Default, Normal, and Fast. My card will act differently depending on these settings. For instance, default is supposed to let the video card drivers/chipset determine the rate and nature of the agp bus port, will normal is supposed to be the most stable. If you mobo, cpu, and agp port are set up a certain way it might cause it to act differently. -----Original Message----- From: Christopher W. Aiken [mailto:cwaiken@users.icubed.com] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 2107 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] nvidia problems On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Ben Rosenberg wrote: ->This is a long standing problem with KDM and the nVidia drivers. They ->are binary only so nothing can be done until nVidia fixes the issue. The ->only work around is not to use KDM and just boot to a prompt..then type ->startx. After you exit your respective WM it should just return you to ->the prompt. -> <SNIP> 'fraid not. I don't use xdm/kdm/gdm. I always use "startx", but if I have to shutdown X, I get the "black screen of death". No keyboard or mouse. No Ctrl-Alt-Del. 'nuttin. Only thing I can do is re-boot. I only use Xfce-3 as my desctop. -=[cwa]=- -- Christopher W. Aiken Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com www.cwaiken.com SuSE 7.1 Professional Linux -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com