Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4208 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

SuSE 9.0 Pro - stock, utd
Intel P3-733
NVidia TNT-2(32)

Yesterday, while trying to load a broken jpg into gimp2 and 30 minutes
of 100 per cent system usage with no keyboard response, I felt it
necessary to take charge with the kill switch.  I was unable to kill
the offending app or change to a text console.

Rebooting I arrived at the NVidia splash screen, then the gray screen
with the 'X' cursor and .......  no further action.  

I checked that XF86Config was not changed/damaged, did 'init 3' and
reinstalled the nvidia driver (5336).  No faults.

'init 5' and same hang at gray screen.

'init 3' and startx gives me kde and a working system, but....

tail /var/log/XFree86.1.log:
(II) NVIDIA(0): AGP 2X successfully initialized
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate external video decoder object
(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***

Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0


What have I done, as I have not knowingly made any recent system changes,
and what do I do to recover.

ps:  just recalled.  I updated webmin from 1.130 to 1.150 but made no
     configuration changes other than the version update.
     
tks,     
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