[opensuse] nvidia driver issue
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 cant 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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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). 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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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.
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.
-- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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
Jason Bailey, Sun Advocate Webmaster pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Jason Bailey, Sun Advocate Webmaster pecked at the keyboard and wrote: <snip>
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.
One of the strong points of using linux is _not_ having to reboot for every little change. Since this is an openSUSE specific support list I tend to provide openSUSE specific shortcuts. It's one of the nice added features/bonuses provided by openSUSE. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Jason Bailey, Sun Advocate Webmaster pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
Jason Bailey, Sun Advocate Webmaster pecked at the keyboard and wrote: <snip>
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.
One of the strong points of using linux is _not_ having to reboot for every little change. Since this is an openSUSE specific support list I tend to provide openSUSE specific shortcuts. It's one of the nice added features/bonuses provided by openSUSE.
Good point. And yes, I have to remember this is an openSUSE mailing list.
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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
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
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.
Ahh... Windows NT 4.0 SP4. Any IP changes required a reboot. Boy, do I miss those days.... NOT. XP has come a long way since NT4, but it's IP stack still isn't as slick as that in Linux. One command... instant IP change. No waiting. Sorry, off the subject, but I just had to say that :)
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
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