Nvidia Drivers Won't Load

[oldcpu]

Originally Posted by Lachrymose

Thanks for the reply! I was able to boot into gnome. But now when I try to download the driver, there are no results on the nvidia sit for my drivers (Geforce 7000M). I'm not really sure what to do now.

Sorry, I do not understand this.

You note you can boot to gnome. What driver are you using now? nv? vesa?

Second, you do not state if you have a 32-bit or 64-bit openSUSE install.

Third, what do you mean by "when I try to download the driver, there are no results on the nvidia sit for my drivers (Geforce 7000M). I'm not really sure what to do now" .. what site are you referring to? What file (for the driver) are you trying to download?

When I want to find out what nvidia driver to use, I go to the nvidia forums: Current NVIDIA Linux graphics driver releases - nV News Forums
and then follow the link appropriate to my card.

or even go here:
Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers
and then follow the link appropriate to my card.

And then install the 'hardway' (which is NOT hard): NVIDIA/The hard way - openSUSE

[palsyboy]

Thanks for the help, everyone. SuSE actually stopped booting just before I had to leave town from visiting my parents, so I had to stick my father back with Windows for a while. I think I'll give this another try when I get home next time.

[alibab]

Originally Posted by oldcpu

Hmmm ... which openSUSE versions did you try? Which nVidia graphic card versions/files did you try?

Have you tried to get help on the nVidia Linux forum? I find it very good:
NVIDIA Linux - nV News Forums

Have you raised a bug on the driver on the Nvidia web site?

Hi oldcpu,
In openSuse 10.3 the card worked well but since 11.1 all nvidia driver do not work anymore. Tried last week again with the latest stable and even beta driver from nvidia. Problem is, that the driver even does not recognize which card it is (GeForce 6800)
Thanks for your link, maybe it will help.