Jason Bailey, Sun Advocate Webmaster pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Hopefully someone can help. I am running openSuse 10.3 with a nvidia GeForce 8600 GT video card. I installed the Nvida drivers through the yast package manager and everything worked out fine, 3d graphics, resolution settings, etc. When I re-booted I got an error stating that my X server could not start. I can’t get into the GUI and I can't figure out how to get things up and running again. On startup it does "sax2" to reconfigure the xserver, but after two attempts it states that it could not reconfigure.
I would also like to note that I have only been running Linux for a couple of weeks and an very green in this area. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Can you get to a console? Try pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 after your machine is done booting.
Login as root from the console. Then type: sax2 -m 0=fbdev
That (in theory anyway) should load sax2 in framebuffer mode (generic 2D mode for general/backward compatibility).
Once you are done with sax2, reboot (use the reboot command).
No need to reboot all that is needed is to use rcxdm restart.
After running the sax command, you could also do: # init 3 then: # init 5 Using 'rcxdm restart' is easier than that however. The reason I suggested a reboot is it's simpler and you don't have to necessarily deal with commands. That, and some commands don't work with all distros (rcxdm is suse-specific I believe, as it is a symlink to a init script).
That won't fix your nvidia issue (I don't have much experience in that area) but at least you'll be able to launch X again.
Using the proprietary drivers for Linux from ATI and Nvidia are a hit and miss in my experience. Personally, I have had better luck with Nvidia Linux drivers than those with ATI. But both of them can be problematic. Personally, I have had best results downloading the drivers directly from nvidia (versus installing rpms via yast) and installing them from a console (X can't be running...). That's not difficult, but the catch is that every time you get a major kernel update (revision) you have to rerun the script (leave the drivers on your machine!!!) which is a pain in the butt. But that's been just my experience. I'm sure there are others on this list who feel completely the opposite. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org