David C. Rankin skrev:
dwain wrote:
i just installed the nvidia driver for my graphics card and rebooted. when i did, i was brought to the command line instead of the desktop.
...lots of cutaway... Hi David and list... - thanks a lot for your rather long and elaborated answer on this matter. I've taken the liberty to copy it to my personal knowledge base, it's a lifesaver, really. - One question though...one that reveals my endless lack of basic knowledge, sigh... In my present xorg.conf (and I've got Nvidia just fine) on my SuSE10.3 (DELL 17" laptop), I haven't got any modelines, the core section looks like this: ----------------------------------------- Section "Modes" Identifier "Modes[0]" EndSection Section "Screen" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1920x1200" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection Device "Device[0]" Identifier "Screen[0]" Monitor "Monitor[0]" EndSection Section "Device" BoardName "Quadro FX 1500M" Driver "nvidia" Identifier "Device[0]" Screen 0 VendorName "NVidia" EndSection ---------------------------------------------- The original *install backup of my xorg.conf DOES have mode-lines, albeit only for 800x600 pixels. How come my system is at all working without these lines? -- ------------------------------ Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org