Hello world, Does someone recognize the black-screen problem I posted last Friday ? Although there are many posting on NVidia in this discussion group, I didn't see anything similar discussed yet, and got no reactions so far. Greetings,
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Subject: [SLE] Black screen after NVidia update Date: Friday 05 September 2003 22:16 From: Jan Elders <jrme@xs4all.nl> To: SuSE Discussion <suse-linux-e@suse.com>
Hi all, After upgrading my kernel (including the source) with YOU to 2.4.20-100, I have downloaded the NVIDIA Installer for Linux IA32. Subsequently, I followed the instructions in www.suse.de/de/private/download/xfree86/index.html section “SuSE Linux 8.2 with update kernel or self-compiled kernel”. - went to runlevel 3 (by restart in Safe Mode) - did the following : cd /usr/src/linux make cloneconfig && make dep cd /windows/e/Linuxdata/Downloads/nvidia/ (= my download directory) export IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=yes sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run - thus ran the NVIDIA Installer - then I changed /etc/X11/XF86Config section Device: replaced Driver “nv” by Driver “nvidia” (according to the NVidia installation instructions) After 9 days of testing and searching, I found out that the following line in
On Sunday 07 September 2003 10:55, Jan Elders wrote: the Section "Device" of XF86Config should be added as well : Option "NvAGP" "0" (at least for my card, which is a GeForce4 488 Go). Without this option, XFree tried to start AGP, which always failed - hence the black screen (I think).
- went to runlevel 5 --> No more display ! (remains black) !!!! - I solved this by running SaX2 (in Safe Mode) : set Monitor model = LCD 1024 x 768 @ 60 Hz set Color & Resolution = 1024 x 768 - 24 bit After this I had my display back, but no 3D !!!! Looking in XF86Config shows that Driver is set back to “nv” (apparently by SAX2).
So .... it seems that setting the driver to "nvidia" ruins my system ? Or , in other words, I think the new NVidia driver is not working correct here. BTW, I'm using a laptop with a 1024x768 LCD screen. What could be the problem ?
My special thanks go to Curtis Rey who offered a lot of suggestions to get this solved, and also to Carlos Robinson who joined in later. Nevertheless, I found this solution on my own. ;-) -- Jan Elders Nuenen the Netherlands