Re: This has happended too many times before...
From: Tim Smith (reply_in_group_at_mouse-potato.com)
Date: 02/07/05
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Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 09:34:19 GMT
In article <I6wNd.14516$68.8435@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk>, Alan wrote:
> I'm running Suse 9.1 Pro and did an online update of packages through
> Yast. Shutdown the computer and upon booting later, the system does all it
> usual stuff and appears to book fine. However when at the point when it
> should startX and show the Login and password boxes, the screen just goes
> blank.
Yup...same here. Not just a blank screen--that can usually be fixed by
killing the X server. It is actually hung. E.g., I cannot ssh in or access
the web server.
The problem (in my case...I'm guessing it is the same with yours) is that
the NVidia driver you have is not compatible with the new kernel that came
down in the last update.
You can fix it two ways.
1. Go into YaST from console mode, go to the updates section, and tell it to
list the optional updates. One of those will be one to download a new
NVidia driver. Tell it to install that. Let it do an update. Then run
sax2 and configure your display again. This fixed it for me.
2. You can download an NVidia driver yourself and install it. Whenever
you then update a kernel, run NVidia's setup program, and it should fix
things for that kernel.
There are some instructions here:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/nvidia-gfx-AMD64-HOWTO
(Yes, I know the title of that says AMD64, but it has sections for others).
Note that these instructions are for the graphical version of YOU, which has
some minor differences from the console version. They are written for
people who somewho guess after installing the new kernel that they need to
update their NVidia driver and are doing so before rebooting, rather than
people like us, who found out *after* rebooting that we can't use X, and
have to fix things from a console.
-- --Tim Smith
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