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Jason Bailey, Sun Advocate Webmaster 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). Well... IMHO way too many reboots there - remember, this is not microsoft windows.
The command "rcxdm restart" is all that's needed. But to answer the OP question, I'm curious as to what happened - the nvidia driver normally does not require any further attention unless there has been manual tweaking, or some sort of trouble with a kernel update. Once you're up and running again, you can force a reinstall of the nvidia drivers in yast. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org