Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2271 mails)

[Carl Hartung <suselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 20:57, Terry Eck wrote:
> Running SuSE 8.2 with a Nvidia GeForce2 MX/MX 400 card. This is what
> is reported under /proc/driver/mvidia/cards/0. When I switch the card
> to a GeForce FX 5200 and reboot I can the GRUB screen and select linux.
> After that the screen goes blank and never show the normal booting
> screen (the one where F2 shows the details). I've switch back to the
> MX 400 card until this problem can be solved. Can anyone help me out?
> BTW I'm using nvidia driver 1.0-5328.
> Thanks,
> Terry
> 

Hi Terry,

This procedure might be of some help.  While the old card is still
installed:

a. Log out of KDE.  Let it sit at the login prompt.
b. Hit Ctl-Alt-F1 to switch to a text console.
c. Log in as root
d. type "init 3" - this lands the system in runlevel 3 (no X)
e. type "init 6" - this shuts down and reboots the system.
f. POWER OFF the system when it's testing it's memory on re-boot.
g. switch cards
h. POWER ON the system and THE INSTANT you see your GRUB menu:
i. type "vga=0x317" and hit [Enter] (assuming Linux is default)

If you follow these instructions, the system should simply boot to text
mode in runlevel 3 with the new card installed.

--> YaST is available in text mode (called "ncurses"):
    Log in as root and type "YaST" [Enter].
--> SaX2 runs *graphically* at this resolution, too:
    As root, type "SaX2 -l" [Enter]
    (the lower case L stands for "low res".)

Hope this helps, good luck & regards,

- Carl

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