Re: NVIDIA driver problems under SLED 10...

Bill wrote:
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.


Hi Bill,

Sorry I wasn't clear in my original posting - X won't start following a reboot.


Thanks,
Dave
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