after installing nvidia drivers, hang after logo

[quejebo]

After I installed the nvidia drivers for Suse 10.2 (through Yast), when I rebooted, after the nvidia logo appeared, a black screen appeared. On this screen, I see only the mouse cursor, which appears as a black 'x.' I can get to the console with ctrl+alt+f2. When I tried to reset the window manager (rcxdm restart), I get the same logo and then black screen.

I have 2 geforce 7600 cards in my system.

Thanks for the help.

[gogalthorp]

Did you run sax2 after the install??

[quejebo]

I didn't... I followed the other set of instructions from the opensuse.org wiki.

when I run sax2, I get the message:
access to your display is denied
ups lost card during probing... abort
something went wrong while X was called with -probeonly
try to call sax2 -p and select a single device


During this process, I saw intermittently a black/white hatched screen with the same 'x' cursor.

[quejebo]

I reinstalled linux, hoping to finally rid myself of this problem. After reinstalling, I get the exact same error. The only difference is that now I don't have the nvidia driver installed. Hence, I get the black screen, but there's no nvidia logo before it.

[gogalthorp]

Did you do a full install or an update?

as root

try sax2 -m 0=vesa (that is zero equals vesa)

This should reset to the vesa driver.

Then type init 5 to start the GUI