I pulled my Nvidia card out of the machine and used the onboard video, reinstalled 11.0, got the Novell client 2.0 working great, and everything looks ok now EXCEPT when I reinstalled the Nvidia card I still have the same problems I reported in my original posts (OpenSuse 11.0 Destroyed my Boot Sector).
I cannot get the Nvidia driver to work. When I run Sax2 with all of the various options, I still get the same results. I tried using the -l and -v options, still nothing.
I then tried using the automatic installation (using the NVIDIA - openSUSE auto install). Still same problems.
Can I get this to work in some other mode? Is there something I am missing?
Alright so you installed via the one-click? Could you please tell us what your Nvidia graphics card is and then post a copy of your xorg.conf located at /etc/X11
Its an NVidia GeForce 8400GS. I am thrilled, because I was able to boot into X today by using the Failsafe (showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off x11failsafe).
Well, it’s using the vesa driver. Okay, so what you’ll want to do is boot up in failsafe mode again. It will be a tty text only console. Login and then type this
sax2 -r
Go through the test and tell it to save the configuration. Then when it’s done type these commands one by one:
I logged in as root at the tty/text console.
Ran sax2 -r, got the following:
“Died at /usr/share/sax/initi.pl line 653”
So, there was no configuration to save
I ran the 3 nvidia-xconfig commands anyway, restarted, but the GUI still did not boot.
From the above output use the numbers from the output to look at the
Supported Products List (link on the left) to verify your card is
supported by the driver.
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
NOTE: If the kernel updated, please reboot before continuing
If you don’t have the kernel source and tools etc installed then
sudo zypper in kernel-source linux-kernel-headers kernel-syms
module-init-tools make gcc
Ahh, missed that my bad. Still the OP needs to ensure that the sax2
command is run at runlevel 3 and use the -m switch, (eg sax2 -r -m
0=nvidia) which may be the problem?
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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