hello.
i have installed the nvidia driver for my nvidia 6600GT card,but after restart,the X server doesn’t work.it seems like it starts, but after a short time the end is just blank screen with no keyboard response (like ctrl+alt+F1).
what is the problem and what should I do?
Hi
How did you install the nvidia driver vi 1-click?
What about if you press ctrl+alt+backspace (twice)
If that doesn’t work then reboot, and at the grub menu enter the number
three (3) in the options down the bottom of the screen. That should
boot to a console login. Login as root and run the command;
sax2 -r -m 0=nv
init 5 && exit
That should get you back to a default nvidia dummy driver.
–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SLED 10.0 SP2 x86_64 Kernel 2.6.16.60-0.31-smp
up 12 days 0:06, 1 user, load average: 0.57, 0.74, 1.38
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 177.80
I installed it through YaST,and I tried the ctrl+alt+backspace,but it didn’t work either.
And i could write the default back, so now X is running,but just with the default driver.How can I get a working driver with 3D support?
you could try switching back to vesa just to get you a GUI
If graphics driver gets messed up, type 3 in the boot line to get runlevel 3 - login as root
type
sax2 -r -m 0=vesa
reboot
this should enable a display using vesa
Are you tried to install it from the console?
I’m new in Linux,so I don’t know how to install it from console.
check this thread
eGeForce 8500 GT (PCI-e x16) (SLI Ready) - openSUSE Forums
This is the way I do it
Alright so here is how to install the nvidia driver manually, in case the one in the repo doesn’t work or u just want to use the latest.
Go to Yast>Software>Software Management
Search for and install if you don’t have these:
make
gcc
kernel-source
Now download the latest Nvidia driver:
Place the file in your /home
Now restart and at the boot screen, pause the boot by moving the down button, then move back up and clear any text in the boot arguments by holding backspace. Then just type the number: 3
At the login
Type “root” then enter and then your root password and press enter.
now type
cd /home
*Now remember you can use the {TAB} key to auto complete
so type:
sh NVIDIA{TAB}
and the whole file name should auto complete
eg: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.09-pkg1.run
Follow the installer and let it compile the kernel module for you.
Say Yes to everything
Use TAB to move around
reboot
I tried the vesa, but it just gave back what nv did.
And I went trough the console installation,and everything was fine,the setup was successfully done,but after a ‘init 5 && exit’ it didn’t work.I got the same blank screen with no response when it tried to start the X.
Hey
I’m really new at this, and since there’s already a topic made I was wondering if someone can tell me where I can download a driver for my Nvidia Video Card. I keep trying to download a driver from Nvidia and it keeps coming up Error. I know that this site has it’s own How-To Nvidia topic but I cannot access the internet at home. So what I want to do is download the driver and see if I can install it myself.
Nvidia Geforce 8800 GT
Hi
You should really create a new thread with hardware details, OS and
architecture… 
i
Have you installed the nvidia driver via 1-click? If not I recommend
the hard way, else follow the easy way here;
Nvidia
This is my canned response for doing it the ‘Hard Way’ 
You can download the driver for your arch from;
Nvidia Unix Drivers
On the download page, check that your card is supported by the driver
your about to download by using the following command;
/sbin/lspci -nv |grep VGA |cut -f4 -d ":"
From the above output use the four numbers from the output to look
at the Supported Products List (on the left) to verify your card is
supported by the driver.
For downloading the current version 177.80 (Note the wget and url are
all on one line)
for 32bit;
wget
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/177.80/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-177..80-pkg1.run
for 64bit;
wget
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/177.80/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.80-pkg2.run
You may wish to ensure your system is up to date. The first command
refreshes the repositories, the second lists any updates, the third
will apply the updates.
sudo zypper ref
sudo zypper lu
sudo zypper up
If you don’t have the kernel source and tools etc installed then
sudo zypper in kernel-source linux-kernel-headers kernel-syms
sudo zypper in -t pattern devel_basis devel_C_C++
Press ctrl+alt+F1 and login as your user
su -
init 3
cd to the Nvidia Unix Driver you downloaded
sh NV*.run -q
sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia
init 5 && exit
ctrl+alt+F1
exit
ctrl+alt+F7
The ctrl+alt+F7 gets you back to the GUI (X session).
Now after a kernel update, you don’t need to run the sax2 command, just
the others to get to run level 3, rebuild the driver and exit.
–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default
up 1 day 1:35, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.29, 0.31
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.80
I tried the ‘hard’ way (which really isn’t so hard :D),but i got the same result(the blank screen) with one exception:after the successful driver installation when the X didn’t work I wrote back the nvidia driver to nv or vesa,but neither of them worked.so i had to reinstall my system because I didn’t have graphical environment.
so now how should I install it?
Hi
If you have a clean install and not updated the kernel, you should be
able to pull everything off the DVD (kernel-source etc) and go the
hard way route. Check you card ID to make sure it’s a supported one.
–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default
up 16:51, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.10, 0.17
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.80
I checked the ID before your hard way and it is supported.And what do you mean by I should be able to pull everything off the DVD?I could install them from it?(and I’ve made the very first big update after install)
Hi
Ahh ok, well you need to ensure the kernel-source and kernel-syms
matches the kernel you have running so you will need to have the online
update repository active and then use the zypper commands (or YaST) to
install.
–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default
up 17:44, 2 users, load average: 0.41, 0.15, 0.04
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 177.80
I did the hard way again,but the result is same as before.Everything installs successfully from console,the system works fine,but after the install i can’t run X(even if i set the default driver back).So I had to do a reinstall again…
Is there any problem with my 10.3 or with my videocard?