Help discovering what my problem lies

[Kieren]

I had OpenSUSE 10.2 installed with a dual boot with XP. Everything worked fine but earlier this week I decided to reinstall to get rid of my XP partition and free up some hard drive space.

When I finished installing OpenSUSE I had no GUI. I tried startx but got the error:

morpheus:~ # startx
xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.4592

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X Window System Version 7.1.99.902 (7.2.0 RC 2)
Release Date: 13 November 2006
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.99.902
Build Operating System: openSUSE SUSE LINUX
Current Operating System: Linux morpheus 2.6.18.8-0.5-default #1 SMP Fri Jun 22 12:17:53 UTC 2007 i686
Build Date: 05 April 2007
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Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Aug 29 23:32:39 2007
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Please ensure
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     that there is a supported NVIDIA GPU in this system, and
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     that the NVIDIA device files have been created properly.
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     Please consult the NVIDIA README for details.
(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found
XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

After changing xorg.conf to use xorg.conf.saxsave in /exc/X11 I was able to get startx to work.

However, something still isn't quite right. The screen is jumpy when I do things like scroll a web page. I have installed the latest drivers for my video card, a NVIDIA GeFORCE 7600 GT, just as I had on the previous installation.

Any ideas what the problem could be?

[bigtomrodney]

Did you reinstall the nVidia drivers? It sounds like you are either using the old xorg.conf without the driver installed or that the driver failed during installation.

[Kieren]

Yes, that's the first thing I tried. I updated using NVIDIA - openSUSE

The strangest thing is I didn't have this problem on my original instillation of OpenSUSE

[Kieren]

Okay, I just reinstalled again and when asked to configure my hardware on the final page of the instalation I clicked skip. OpenSUSE has now booted into the GUI but I was met with the message:

"Your monitor did not report its X and Y Size. This might cause display problems like unreadable fonts."

Fonts are still readable but not as smooth as they should be. Clicking yes to the message opens SaX2: X11 Configuration and if I edit any of the settings, for instance turning down the resolution, and test them the test will fail.

Anyone seen this at all?

[Kieren]

Yesterday I decided to download Fedora to see if the same happened. After burning the disk I realised that since my original installation of OpenSUSE I had started to use a KVM switch so my monitor wasn't connected directly to my computer.

I removed the KVM switch and reinstalled OpenSUSE and everything is running fine now!