Well, thanks for all the help. I tried the things suggested, but none of them seemed to get me any further. So, I decided to scratch the installation and try again. It isn't as bad ass it sounds, I just built the thing a couple of weeks ago, so I didn't have time to do any sigificant amount of work on it. The up side is that I learned to be very careful about kernel and video driver updates in the future. Thanks again for all the helpful suggestions. Hope y'all had a Merry Christmas and have a happy New Year. -- Bill Lugg Milstar Software Support Peterson AFB, CO On Fri, 24 December 2004 12:02 pm, BandiPat wrote:

On Friday 24 December 2004 02:04 am, William Lugg wrote:

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You may be on to something. In perusing the log files I found one that stated the nvidia driver 'tainted' the kernel.

Now, this is a new installation - only about a week old. after installing, I got YOU going and in the process downloaded the nvidia driver. All went well ... until today.

So I guess my next question needs to be how do I disable the nvidia driver and fall back to something that works so I can get in and manually get this beast back on its feet?

I tried running sax2, but all I get is a blank screen with an outlined X in the middle of it. I looked in SaX.log and found a long litany of information, but nothing that jumped out at me as a problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Will, Not sure I can be of much help with this, as I don't run the Nvidia cards any longer for just this reason. It continually seems as though you have to deal with this with each new nvidia driver, as you will notice on the list.

Patrick gives you some good info and his suggestion about running YOU again to download & install the newer Nvidia driver to your new kernel would be best. Of course, getting some graphics back is the first thing. You can boot to init 3 or the text terminal, so from there you can run the text version (ncurses) version of YaST2 to remove the Nvidia install and fall back to the original SuSE installed "nv" driver. Once you get your graphics, you can attempt YOU again and get the new Nvidia driver installed, so you can get your 3d going.

Hope that is a bit helpful, Lee