Basil Chupin wrote:
You have hit the nVIDIA Driver Brickwall Syndrome. Even the very latest driver (5336), which is supposed to have fixed all sorts of problems, causes you to hit the Brickwall. Tell us (me) which video card you are using and which version of the kernel (Athlon or non-Athlon)? Depending on your answer, you may have to go back to the #4363 driver (you would uninstall the driver you just installed with 'nvidia-installer --uninstall' and then install the #4363 driver. Cheers.
Thanks for the above info, and i hope it's ok to jump in here ? (newbie2?) I was a pleased Suse 8.0 user until that NVidia stuff hit the fan and ruined it for me. I have kernel 2.4.18_4GB with an AMD 2.4 G CPU on an Asus A7S333 M/Bd, with a GeForce2 MX64L -400 card, and i attempted to do the Suse security upgrade plus the NV driver (my first try -#4363 i think)), without doing enough reading and without killing X, so i ended up with a real mess - no video, no modem, Sax2 crippled etc. Now i've had to go back toWin98se to even get online, despite trying to reinstall Suse 8.0 Personal many times. What a disaster! Elitist bullshit? instead of help? Personally i feel NVidia should be shot with a ball of their own <scat>, and Suse should never have allowed us newbies to be treated so badly. Changed my plans to buy 8.2 or 9.0 until i see if another distro or an ATI card is the way out for me. If you'd care to enlighten me about this NV card and this AMD cpu, i would certainly like to know more about it. Thanks, BrianB.