On Sunday 07 Mar 2010 12:05:49 Rodney Baker wrote:
Bob, There is one other thing you should look at that I've just tripped over on my desktop: when the X server fails to start after the nvidia proprietary driver is installed, please check the last 10 lines or so of dmesg to see if the following error message appears:
vmap allocation failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
If it does, please add "vmalloc=128MB" to your kernel command line in /boot/grub/menu.lst (without the quotes), reboot and see what happens. If it still fails to load, check dmesg again - you may need to increase the parameter to 256MB. That worked for me after someone accidentally hit the reset button on my desktop and it refused to start X with the newest nvidia drivers. I found the solution on google.
Regards, Rodney.
Rodney, Many thanks for this suggestion, and the one in your previous message. I'd missed them earlier as I'd not kept my eye on further activity in this thread. I'm going away tomorrow for a few weeks, but I'll certainly give it another try on my return. Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.2, Kernel 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop, KDE 4.3.5 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org