On Sunday 07 December 2003 02:20 am, Eric Pierce wrote:
Just completed a network install of SuSE 9.0 which I thought went without a hitch, but I can barely use X as it freezes within minutes each time I start it up.
I used SuSE 8.2 on the same machine and had basically no probs with my video hardware setup (NVidia TNT2 32mb) w/3D acceleration. Now I can't even get Sax2 to stay up long enough (before X freezes) to try some different settings, and I don't know much about editing the XFConfig file except that it seams I need to run SuSEconfig after making any changes. [...] Any suggestions?
Thanks for reading my garble! Eric Pierce __________________________________
Eric, A couple of things to consider. Did you do an online update with YOU after installing SuSE 9.0? If not, you should as there are some XFree86 files awaiting you. Some folks installing 9.0 had these same type problems after installing and failing to do the update files. I suspect it affects certain hardware though, as not everyone had the problem. You will also be able to get and/or update your Nvidia drivers doing the update. The next thing, remove your present /etc/X11/XF86Config file, so sax2 has the opportunity to create a new file and start fresh. Usually it is best to boot to only runlevel 3 or init 3 to do these things. Stay out of X when adjusting the graphics, it just seems to work better when having problems. At the GRUB screen, just type "init 3" to only boot to the terminal. No need to run SuSEconfig after making manual changes to the XF86Config file, not sure where you got that from. You might also want to search the mail list archives for more info other users already contributed on this matter. And of course, the SuSE manuals sometimes provide some very useful info. Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...