Hello, I have a problem after updating yesterday with YOU. Now my machine will boot up but when xdm starts it goes to a black screen and stays, can't switch tty's, tried coming up in init 3 and sax2 does the same thing when started. Same result after reinstalling the Nvidia drivers. *$##*#&# :-) Everything has been fine the last few updates I've done. I am using an Nvidia Geforce 5700 I think pherhaps the kernel update is the culprit? anyone else have this problem? How can I fix this? All I got on the update was the usual message about rebooting the machine to be able to load up any needed drivers after the update. Please help. -- Chad W
Chad Whiting wrote:
I think pherhaps the kernel update is the culprit? anyone else have this problem? How can I fix this? Just a thought, but does running depmod -ae in the modules directory fix it? -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
Don't know, I will have to try that later when I get home. Any other ideas are surely still welcome if anyone knows exactly what has caused this. On Tuesday 08 February 2005 8:43 am, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Chad Whiting wrote:
I think pherhaps the kernel update is the culprit? anyone else have this problem? How can I fix this?
Just a thought, but does running depmod -ae in the modules directory fix it? -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
I'm afraid that you are one of many who have experienced this. I'm afraid that I fscked my system completly by trying to fix it. It would appear that this is due to the kernel upgrade. I loaded up the installation DVD to see if I could repair the damage and seem to have now lost internet connectivity. Any ideas on how to recover my system? It is 9.1 AMD-64. I'm contemplating getting the 9.2 distribution and updating. Does this sound like it might be the right way to go? Regards, Bill On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Chad Whiting wrote:
Don't know, I will have to try that later when I get home. Any other ideas are surely still welcome if anyone knows exactly what has caused this.
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 8:43 am, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Chad Whiting wrote:
I think pherhaps the kernel update is the culprit? anyone else have this problem? How can I fix this?
Just a thought, but does running depmod -ae in the modules directory fix it? -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
I have not tried anything but reinstalling nvidia drivers yet. if you boot into init 3 it works on command line, but if you try to start xdm you get the black screen and nothing else. The following is not a flame, but I think it has some relevance here: If anyone from SUSE is reading the message boards, and I'm sure you are aware of the problem, it would be really nice if when updating you could make sure that at the least everything works. I stopped using SuSE at one point because of an issue very much like this, and would really like to continue to use and recommend SuSE, but this really sucks to be honest. Especially having come back to SuSE after this kind of thing seemed fixed with the 9 series. Maybe i'm being too harsh but you don't win anyone over with this kind of mistake... (ok, off the soap box I go) I would really like to be able to fix this without having to reinstall...etc... If that is not the case I think I will just switch to something else and be done with it. (maybe gentoo can update successfully?) On Tuesday 08 February 2005 10:21 am, you wrote:
I'm afraid that you are one of many who have experienced this. I'm afraid that I fscked my system completly by trying to fix it. It would appear that this is due to the kernel upgrade. I loaded up the installation DVD to see if I could repair the damage and seem to have now lost internet connectivity.
Any ideas on how to recover my system? It is 9.1 AMD-64. I'm contemplating getting the 9.2 distribution and updating. Does this sound like it might be the right way to go?
Regards, Bill
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Chad Whiting wrote:
Don't know, I will have to try that later when I get home. Any other ideas are surely still welcome if anyone knows exactly what has caused this.
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 8:43 am, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Chad Whiting wrote:
I think pherhaps the kernel update is the culprit? anyone else have this problem? How can I fix this?
Just a thought, but does running depmod -ae in the modules directory fix it? -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
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Chad Whiting wrote:
I have not tried anything but reinstalling nvidia drivers yet. if you boot into init 3 it works on command line, but if you try to start xdm you get the black screen and nothing else. The following is not a flame, but I think it has some relevance here:
If anyone from SUSE is reading the message boards, and I'm sure you are aware of the problem, it would be really nice if when updating you could make sure that at the least everything works. I stopped using SuSE at one point because of an issue very much like this, and would really like to continue to use and recommend SuSE, but this really sucks to be honest. Especially having come back to SuSE after this kind of thing seemed fixed with the 9 series. Maybe i'm being too harsh but you don't win anyone over with this kind of mistake... (ok, off the soap box I go)
I would really like to be able to fix this without having to reinstall...etc... If that is not the case I think I will just switch to something else and be done with it. (maybe gentoo can update successfully?)
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 10:21 am, you wrote:
I'm afraid that you are one of many who have experienced this. I'm afraid that I fscked my system completly by trying to fix it. It would appear that this is due to the kernel upgrade. I loaded up the installation DVD to see if I could repair the damage and seem to have now lost internet connectivity.
Any ideas on how to recover my system? It is 9.1 AMD-64. I'm contemplating getting the 9.2 distribution and updating. Does this sound like it might be the right way to go?
Regards, Bill
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Chad Whiting wrote:
Don't know, I will have to try that later when I get home. Any other ideas are surely still welcome if anyone knows exactly what has caused this.
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 8:43 am, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Chad Whiting wrote:
I think pherhaps the kernel update is the culprit? anyone else have this problem? How can I fix this?
Just a thought, but does running depmod -ae in the modules directory fix it? -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
I had the same problem. I've now disabled auto-updating the kernel. I had to download, recompile and reinstall the nvidia driver straight from www.nvidia.com. I unfortunately had to use a different graphics card momentarily to get my browser to work so I could pull the stuff in.
I have not tried getting it strait from nvidia and compiling again, that may work, I think the last time I tried it I had an error about not being able to compile for the kernel, but it's worth a shot. At least you can use the command line to try this. The issue arrises after you have started xdm, you can't get anything off the tty's etc...., just a black screen. On Tuesday 08 February 2005 10:49 am, Pierre Patino wrote:
Chad Whiting wrote:
I have not tried anything but reinstalling nvidia drivers yet. if you boot into init 3 it works on command line, but if you try to start xdm you get the black screen and nothing else. The following is not a flame, but I think it has some relevance here:
If anyone from SUSE is reading the message boards, and I'm sure you are aware of the problem, it would be really nice if when updating you could make sure that at the least everything works. I stopped using SuSE at one point because of an issue very much like this, and would really like to continue to use and recommend SuSE, but this really sucks to be honest. Especially having come back to SuSE after this kind of thing seemed fixed with the 9 series. Maybe i'm being too harsh but you don't win anyone over with this kind of mistake... (ok, off the soap box I go)
I would really like to be able to fix this without having to reinstall...etc... If that is not the case I think I will just switch to something else and be done with it. (maybe gentoo can update successfully?)
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 10:21 am, you wrote:
I'm afraid that you are one of many who have experienced this. I'm afraid that I fscked my system completly by trying to fix it. It would appear that this is due to the kernel upgrade. I loaded up the installation DVD to see if I could repair the damage and seem to have now lost internet connectivity.
Any ideas on how to recover my system? It is 9.1 AMD-64. I'm contemplating getting the 9.2 distribution and updating. Does this sound like it might be the right way to go?
Regards, Bill
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Chad Whiting wrote:
Don't know, I will have to try that later when I get home. Any other ideas are surely still welcome if anyone knows exactly what has caused this.
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 8:43 am, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Chad Whiting wrote:
I think pherhaps the kernel update is the culprit? anyone else have this problem? How can I fix this?
Just a thought, but does running depmod -ae in the modules directory fix it? -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
I had the same problem. I've now disabled auto-updating the kernel. I had to download, recompile and reinstall the nvidia driver straight from www.nvidia.com. I unfortunately had to use a different graphics card momentarily to get my browser to work so I could pull the stuff in.
Here's a link to a message that might describe's your
issue and a solution:
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-amd64/2004-Oct/0335.html
(If this is the same problem you are having)
Sean
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:58:16 -0600
Chad Whiting
I have not tried getting it strait from nvidia and compiling again, that may work, I think the last time I tried it I had an error about not being able to compile for the kernel, but it's worth a shot. At least you can use the command line to try this.
The issue arrises after you have started xdm, you can't get anything off the tty's etc...., just a black screen.
I installed SuSE 9.2 twice in my x86-64 box (A8V with an Asus GF5700). The first time I installed the YOU patch to install the Nvidia driver (the old one that is still a rpm) and then the 6629 one from Nvidia. Everything worked well. Second time I went straight to the Nvidia 6629 driver. After a successful install, SaX2 never started, only a black screen. After several attempts I chose not to install the OpenGL 32 bits libraries in the Nvidia install app and finally I got SaX2 working. This was with the last kernel. My experience might help others with Nvidia problems.... Alex
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Pierre Patino wrote:
I had the same problem. I've now disabled auto-updating the kernel. I had to download, recompile and reinstall the nvidia driver straight from www.nvidia.com. I unfortunately had to use a different graphics card momentarily to get my browser to work so I could pull the stuff in.
That's a good idea - if I had a 2nd video card sitting around :(
Are your getting no terminals, or is the size just wrong
and the text not visible?
Try going to one of your terminals, logging in (I know you
can't see the text just type a valid user name hit enter
and the password and hit enter), and issuing a command
like 'ls /*' that will fill your screen. You can logout
with a control-d.
I seem to recall the NVidia drivers causing something like
this in 9.1, but cannot find the reference yet.
Sean Lynch
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:31:29 -0600
Chad Whiting
I have not tried anything but reinstalling nvidia drivers yet. if you boot into init 3 it works on command line, but if you try to start xdm you get the black screen and nothing else. The following is not a flame, but I think it has some relevance here:
If anyone from SUSE is reading the message boards, and I'm sure you are aware of the problem, it would be really nice if when updating you could make sure that at the least everything works. I stopped using SuSE at one point because of an issue very much like this, and would really like to continue to use and recommend SuSE, but this really sucks to be honest. Especially having come back to SuSE after this kind of thing seemed fixed with the 9 series. Maybe i'm being too harsh but you don't win anyone over with this kind of mistake... (ok, off the soap box I go)
I would really like to be able to fix this without having to reinstall...etc... If that is not the case I think I will just switch to something else and be done with it. (maybe gentoo can update successfully?)
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