Re: Nividia help

From: Dr. Deb (dgfreeman_at_mon-cre.net)
Date: 08/18/05 

Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:15:59 -0500

Thanks, Rajko, it worked like a charm.

Deb

Rajko M. wrote:

> Dr. Deb wrote:
>
>> I installed a Nvidia Geforce fx 5500 video card, downloaded the driver,
>> tried the You install and gave up and did the manual install. I have
>> installed Nvidia drivers before and had no problem. But now I have lost
>> my "auto logon." and the ability to either shutdown or restart the
>> computer from the "K menu."
>>
>> Also, I get a "pea green" login screen that has only the username and
>> password entry places and the "xconsole" log screen in the lower
>> lefthand corner.
>>
>> I am running SuSe 9.3 and get error message, which says, "linux kernel
>> error 0" (I think)
>>
>> How do I either get auto logon back or at least get the ability to
>> shutdown
>> from the user? I have checked in the "Control Center" and auto login is
>> selected.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Deb
>
> Look in /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager and set (edit) DEFAULT_WM="kde", now
> is something like "twm". The same for /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager where
> you should set DISPALYMANAGER="kdm", now is probably "xdm".
>
> Error 0 should be the same as "no error".
>
> If this doesn't help, look in /var/log/Xorg.* logs for some error messages
> that can explain why system doesn't load kdm (kde).
>
> I recall that it made problem before I installed kernel sources, after
> that it went without problems using YaST. That happend on two different
> computers and video adapters. So I assume, that having kernel sources is
> mandatory in either method described in nvidia-howto.
>

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