Re: [SLE] Switching Nvidia Cards results in blank screen on boot

From: Carl Hartung (suselinux_at_cehartung.com)
Date: 04/11/04

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Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 00:45:35 -0400

    On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 20:57, Terry Eck wrote:
    > Running SuSE 8.2 with a Nvidia GeForce2 MX/MX 400 card. This is what
    > is reported under /proc/driver/mvidia/cards/0. When I switch the card
    > to a GeForce FX 5200 and reboot I can the GRUB screen and select linux.
    > After that the screen goes blank and never show the normal booting
    > screen (the one where F2 shows the details). I've switch back to the
    > MX 400 card until this problem can be solved. Can anyone help me out?
    > BTW I'm using nvidia driver 1.0-5328.
    > Thanks,
    > Terry
    >

    Hi Terry,

    This procedure might be of some help. While the old card is still
    installed:

    a. Log out of KDE. Let it sit at the login prompt.
    b. Hit Ctl-Alt-F1 to switch to a text console.
    c. Log in as root
    d. type "init 3" - this lands the system in runlevel 3 (no X)
    e. type "init 6" - this shuts down and reboots the system.
    f. POWER OFF the system when it's testing it's memory on re-boot.
    g. switch cards
    h. POWER ON the system and THE INSTANT you see your GRUB menu:
    i. type "vga=0x317" and hit [Enter] (assuming Linux is default)

    If you follow these instructions, the system should simply boot to text
    mode in runlevel 3 with the new card installed.

    --> YaST is available in text mode (called "ncurses"):
        Log in as root and type "YaST" [Enter].
    --> SaX2 runs *graphically* at this resolution, too:
        As root, type "SaX2 -l" [Enter]
        (the lower case L stands for "low res".)

    Hope this helps, good luck & regards,

    - Carl

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