On Sunday 06 February 2005 09:57, Sunny wrote:
On Sunday 06 February 2005 07:16, Bob Schmidt wrote:
Hi All,
New to the list. I am running suse 9.1, I did an on-line update last night, but never restarted my computer. This morning when I turn it on, it goes through the boot process and then blank screen. I restart in the failsafe mode, and then type "startx" it says that "xinint" could not be found. I'm not real good with linux, but my computer was working fine until I updated it last night. Any ideas as to what I might do to get it up and running again?
Thanks, Bob
Bob, as Carl said, if you have nVidia card and are using their driver, this may be a problem. As I'm running a similar config, and I've gone through these steps a few days ago, just drop a line and I'll be more than happy to assist you.
Sunny
On Sunday 06 February 2005 12:12, you wrote:
Hi Sunny,
I am using an Nvidia graphics card, TNT2 Ultra with 32mb of ram. I sure could use the help if you're willing.
Thanks, Bob
Before you continue, you need kernel-sources package installed, If you did not install it, use yast (it has a text mode, so your not working X is not a problem) to do so. With kernel-sources installed: 1. Boot (or switch) to runlevel 3 2. login as root 3. #cd /usr/src/linux 4. #make cloneconfig 5. #make prepare-all 6. #nvidia-installer --uppdate -f This will contact the nvidia site and download the latest version of the driver, and will recreate the needed kernel modules. If you already have downloaded the latest driver (xxx.run from nvidia), just rerun the installer, it will recreate the modules. When you are ready, just #init 5 will put you in runlevel 5. This should work. Sunny -- Get Firefox http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=10745&t=85 -- Get Firefox http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=10745&t=85