On Thursday 01 July 2004 14:42, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
SuSE 9.0 Pro - stock, utd Intel P3-733 NVidia TNT-2(32)
Yesterday, while trying to load a broken jpg into gimp2 and 30 minutes of 100 per cent system usage with no keyboard response, I felt it necessary to take charge with the kill switch. I was unable to kill the offending app or change to a text console.
Rebooting I arrived at the NVidia splash screen, then the gray screen with the 'X' cursor and ....... no further action.
I checked that XF86Config was not changed/damaged, did 'init 3' and reinstalled the nvidia driver (5336). No faults.
Is this the latest driver?
'init 5' and same hang at gray screen.
'init 3' and startx gives me kde and a working system, but....
tail /var/log/XFree86.1.log: (II) NVIDIA(0): AGP 2X successfully initialized (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate external video decoder object (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
Fatal server error: AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
What have I done, as I have not knowingly made any recent system changes, and what do I do to recover.
Not a solution, but: Perhaps using the X built-in NVidia driver (nv) wil get you a working system again. Just change 'Driver "NVidia"' to 'Driver "nv"' (maybe backup first). And to see what packages you've installed lately with YaST, look at /var/log/YaST2/y2logRPM. No log entry if you installed something without YaST. Cheers, Leen