x server not starting

[Gisted_kudu]

At least I think thats whats not happening,

So I'm a linux newbie.

I've been trying to get my graphics driver to work and I have had a succesful installation of the driver but when I reboot to start the nvidia driver I have no GUI and I'll be running on init 5

(that means the x server isn't starting right?)

Any idea what I can do/try to get the driver running?

[yet_another_newbie]

I had the same problem! i couldnt even begin to comprehend what the actual problem is though!
I read somewhere online that its a problem with the driver provided for newer Nvidia cards in the opensuse repositories. I found that if you enter sax2 (be logged in as Root) you can reset the driver to the default 'nv' driver which will provide an x session but no acceleration. if you are using Opensuse 10.3 you can browse to Nvidia's website and install the one click install driver directly from them.
The one click install is a little hard to find, the link is buried in a how-to document. Try this:

Nvidia Installer HOWTO for SUSE LINUX users

It worked for me!
Good luck!!

[gogalthorp]

You should change to init 3 mode before trying anything.

Just type init 3 as root


You can also edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and change the driver from nvida to nv.

[Gisted_kudu]

I had the same problem! i couldnt even begin to comprehend what the actual problem is though!
I read somewhere online that its a problem with the driver provided for newer Nvidia cards in the opensuse repositories. I found that if you enter sax2 (be logged in as Root) you can reset the driver to the default 'nv' driver which will provide an x session but no acceleration. if you are using Opensuse 10.3 you can browse to Nvidia's website and install the one click install driver directly from them.
The one click install is a little hard to find, the link is buried in a how-to document. Try this:

Nvidia Installer HOWTO for SUSE LINUX users

It worked for me!
Good luck!!

That was the site I originally used for the instructions on installing the driver in the first place.

You should change to init 3 mode before trying anything.

Just type init 3 as root


You can also edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and change the driver from nvida to nv.

I did everything in init 3 as I recall it's just after installing it would boot into init 5 and I've tried switching between the two thinking maybe it would start it up but no good.

for now I used sax2 -m 0=vesa to get basic gui back.

How do I edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to change the driver from nvidia to nv?

[gogalthorp]

I've always had the best luck with NVIDIA installing by the instructions for what is called the hard way. It is not that hard. But you do need to install the gcc compiler and the kernel-source. This is done via Yast.

The advantage is that you have the installer on the drive so If the kernel or Xwindows is updated you don't have to fumble around with the drive just cd to where the installer is and run it as root. Also just seems to work better.

I just had a Kernel upgrade a day or so ago. Took all of 5 minutes to reinstall the NVIDIA drive and VMware server. rebooted back to normal operations.

[gogalthorp]

That was the site I originally used for the instructions on installing the driver in the first place.



I did everything in init 3 as I recall it's just after installing it would boot into init 5 and I've tried switching between the two thinking maybe it would start it up but no good.

for now I used sax2 -m 0=vesa to get basic gui back.

How do I edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file to change the driver from nvidia to nv?

sax2 -m 0=nv will do it That is basically what sax2 does.

or as root just edit the file. There are loads of choses for editors. Almost everyone has vi installed. For a simpler editor with almost no learning curve try joe I think it is installed by default. I use nano also a very simple editor. I would not want to do a major programming project in the simple editors but they are quite able to do some simple edits to a config file. example

joe /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Good idea to save a backup before changing a major configuration file.

[Gisted_kudu]

Ok thank you ^__^

I'll try this and see if it works.