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From: Carl Hartung
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
On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 20:57, Terry Eck wrote: 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.
Simply type init 0 to shutdown and eliminate e & f.
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.
Wrong! The system will always boot to the run level set in /etc/inittab. If you want to boot to run level 3 then type at the boot prompt "3" (without the quotes) plus any additional params. Test the new card without any changes by logging in with your user ID and run startx. If you go into your desktop there is no need to run yast of sax2. Log out and then login as root and type init 5 at prompt. KDE login should start. Ken