Re: NVIDIA driver problems under SLED 10...

In article <xvtSg.11861$Vk4.11473@trnddc01>,
littelld_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
Hi all,

After completing a SLED 10 installation, the updater listed an
NVIDIA driver package. Having an NVIDIA 7900 GS-based card and
ultimately wanting to use Xgl/compiz, I selected it for
installation. Oopsie. Now X won't start and blaims the NVIDIA
module, which in turn blames the system for having some other
riva or nv module already loaded.

Is there a way to correct this problem? I'm not at all sure what
I should have done differently, but there must still be some
tricks to getting the NVIDIA driver going that the updater
doesn't do.


Thanks,
Dave


I know somebody will give the "proper" way to do it, but have you
tried rebooting the system? I had a similar experience with the Nvidia
driver on one of my machines and rebooting fixed it.

Bill
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