GUI not geting after NVIDIA driver installing in opensuse 11.3

[adil_mulleseril]

I installed on my laptop NVIDIA driver from the opensuse repository. After restart i am not geting the GUI.The screen blinks while booting and finally ends in command line login. Error shows that gdm lasted for only few seconds. Max number of try exceeded.
HP pavillion ZV5000
64b processor
NVIDIA GEForce4 440 64m

[oldcpu]

I installed on my laptop NVIDIA driver from the opensuse repository. After restart i am not geting the GUI.The screen blinks while booting and finally ends in command line login. Error shows that gdm lasted for only few seconds. Max number of try exceeded.
HP pavillion ZV5000
64b processor
NVIDIA GEForce4 440 64m

Did you try booting with 'nomodeset' . Also did you try the suggestion in the openSUSE-11.3 release notes ? (dare I ask if you read the the openSUSE-11.3 release notes ? ) ... ie :

In the rare cases when loading the DRM module from initrd is a general problem and unrelated to KMS, it is even possible to disable loading of the DRM module in initrd completely. For this set the NO_KMS_IN_INITRD sysconfig variable to yes via YAST, which then recreates initrd afterwards. Reboot your machine.

Note you can boot to a full screen text mode (run level 3) by typing '3' (no quotes) in the options line of the grub boot menu, and then login as a regular user, switch to root, and then run: yast

You can navigate yast with TAB, Spacebar, < enter > and arrow keys. ie yast > System > /etc/sysconfig Editor > System > Kernel > NO_KMS_IN_INITRD and change it to "yes". This takes a minute or two to save once changed is submitted. (see below image examples).






I hope that helps.