Hi there:
I did this really stupid thing. I don't know why, but I did it. This is what I did-
I had installed opensuse 11.1 on my laptop. And since I have nvidia graphics card, I went to the
NVIDIA - openSUSE page and installed the driver using Yast. Everything was fine till this stage and then I dont know why I did this (may be I was not sleeping enough) I again downloaded and installed drivers following the instructions on
NVIDIA/The hard way - openSUSE page. After I installed the drivers and before starting the SaX (As per the instructions we need to the start the SaX manually if we are installing 'The hard way' ) it asked me to rename or delete certain files and change the links to certain files. I dont remember which files I deleted and which I changed links to. I believe I was advised so by the wizard because the versions 185.18.14(from one-click install)
and 180.29(from the hard way install) were mismatching.
Now the problem is, I have to login from the terminal because I dont see the GUI. I have tried to start the SaX manually by giving the command but this is what I get.
Code:
nachiket@linux-uswe:~>su
Password:
linux-uswe:/home/nachiket# sax2
SaX: Initializing please wait...
SaX: your current configuration will not be read in
SaX: no x-Server is running
SaX: will start own server if needed
SPP: prepare device [0] profile: Depth24
SPP: prepare device [0] profile: NVidia
SPP: calling device [0] profile script: NVidia
SPP: prepare device [0] profile: NoModelines
SPP: prepare device [0] profile: Composite
SPP: prepare device [1] profile: alps
SPP: prepare device [3] profile: alps
SPP: including prepared profile(s)...
SPP: prepare device[0] profile: nobus
SPP: including prepared profile(s)...
SaX: startup
xc: sorry could not start configuration server
xc: for details refer to the log file:
/var/log/SaX.log
xc: abort...
linux-uswe:/home/nachiket#:
I have also checked the /var/log/SaX.log file and the log file contains the following error:
Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version 185.18.14,
but this NVIDIA driver component has version 180.29. Please make
sure that the kernel module and all NVIDIA driver components
have the same version.
How should I fix the problem? Please also make note that I cannot go online from terminal. Sorry I can, but I dont know how to connect to the wireless network around using the terminal. I only know how to connect using knetwork manager. So please keep this thing mind and reply to the query.
Thanks in advance.