I’ve managed to install the driver for my Nvidia card on opensuse 11.2 by following the instructions on: Where are the instructions for nVidia driver for 11.2 M2? - openSUSE Forums The one click option didn’t work.
I checked to make sure it was the right driver first (x86-173.14.22 driver for Geforce 5000fx card).
However, when I type the command in the title of this thread I get this response:
“Sax: no x-server is running”
“sax: will start its own server if needed”
then:
“ISaX: could not import file: /var/cache/sax/files/config at /usr/bin/isax line 199” 3 times, then eventually
“xc: sorry could not start configuration server”
Now when I log on the graphical display won’t start so I had to send this from another computer. Any ideas what I can do?
Don’t run sax2, there’s no need for it in 11.2; it creates /etc/X11/xorg.conf and this is no longer needed, it might even conflict with autodetection and -configuration. So remove/rename mentioned file. If driver installed OK, you should have a full blown desktop. For what it’s worth, the card is quite old, but should do.
Yep. I know what happened, the OP copy- and pasted from the mentioned post. The linewrapping was not OK, so now the OP thinks the sax2 lines were caused by the shell command…
The command can never be like this. It should have the full filename. In a terminal window, change to the folder you downloaded the driverinstall file to. No do this:
su
(enter rootpassword)
init 3
(this stops the X-server, that takes care of graphic displays)
sh NV(immediatelyfollowed by hitting TAB, this completes the filename, add a space and the “-q” ) -q
This starts the installer. Accept and OK everything, until done. Then don’t use sax2 just do:
init 5 && exit
This would bring either the desktop or the login screen, depending on how you configured things during install.
pilotgi is absolutely correct, I wrote the wrong command in the thread title, sorry about that. I have tried Knurpht’s instructions and reinstalled the driver (whilst in init 3) then tried to exit to init 5 but i’m still on the command screen. You mention earlier about deleting the sax2 file I created, how do I go about doing this as a command?
I’d also like to know what Malcolm Lewis thinks as its his instructions I was following (to the letter)?
I got the response:
mv: cannot stat ‘/etc/X11/xorg.conf’ :No such file or directory
so, I suppose this means that the sax2 command didn’t work at all before so no xorg.conf file was created. My Nvidia driver is installed, no xorg.conf in the way, but I’m still unable to get passed the command screen. Alt+ctrl+f7 just takes me to a black screen with a flickering cursor, alt+ctrl+f1 takes me back but basically i’m trapped.
Hi
As Knurpht says, those instructions were pre 11.2, however if it’s
doesn’t work (Possibly because it’s a legacy device) then follow the
instructions, worst case you need to do remove the xorg.conf file if
it won’t boot to runlevel 5.
That being said, after you try the above and it still doesn’t work,
boot to runlevel 3 and login as your user and run the command startx.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.42-0.1-default
up 18 days 6:45, 4 users, load average: 0.19, 0.11, 0.03
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - CUDA Driver Version: 190.53
ok, did startx and got this respose:
API mismatch: the nvidia kernel module has version 173.14.18 but the this nvidia driver component has version 173.14.22
then after attempting to start it gave up:
xinit: no such file or directory: unabel to connect to xserver
xinit: no such process
I dunno how I ended up with parts that dont match, downloaded one file from nvidia and I made sure it was the correct driver. Still, at least I think I know the problem. Any solutions?
Hi
Either start yast and use the tab and arrow keys to get to the software
management and then search on nvidia, if its there remove it and try
again (as your user to startx. Else use zypper command to search and
remove;
zypper se nvidia
zypper rm <the ones that have an i against them>
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.42-0.1-default
up 18 days 7:52, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - CUDA Driver Version: 190.53
In the mean time, is there a way I can use the old nv driver again so I can access my desktop; I can’t carry on using this computer as it’s starting to annoy its owner.
Yay! its working, nvidia driver running, just needed a reboot like you said. Still getting a bit of jerkiness when watching streaming videos but the pictures pretty clear so I think thats a problem for another day. cheers Malcolm
