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
It might be worth checking the X11 logs in /var/log (i.e. /var/log Xorg.0.log) to see if that sheds some light on the Nvidia problem. But the framebuffer mode should at least get you X11 back in the mean time (but without hardware rendering of course). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org