Okay, I had the same problem. After installing 9.3 and updating using YOU first everything was fine. After the first reboot it started XDM not KDM. I don't believe Nvidia crashed (or something), it did however display a kernel message 'kernel message Nvidia tainted kernel' or something.

Anyhow I had only the XDM login manager now and when I logged in as root it started XDM. I didn't have the shutdown options anymore.

What I did then is I started KDE in XDM. Opened YAST and changed the sysconfig like I described. After that I rebootet my computer (terminal - reboot)

After that everything is fine, KDE & KDM are back, logout options are back and NVIDIA driver is working including 3D.

What I didn't do is installing the Nvidia driver manually. I installed it using YOU.

It worked for me and I hope it helped other people.

By the way. I don't think it's an NVIDIA problem. I read in other thread that someone with an ATI graphics card had the same problem. He gave me this workaround.

When you search for XDM in your sysconfig, you will see that the display-manager is set to xdm. It should be kdm (or gdm)

For your information:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=316713

Same problem with SuSE 9.2, maybe something to do with X.org?

Anyway, once you have the driver installed, as root, do:

modprobe nvidia

Then:

sax2 -m 0=nvidia

You should be able to switch on the 3D now. After you leave sax, as root type:

depmod

So the kernel will know to load that module every time.

Of course, the XDM issue that is being described was not the original problem of this thread, and it remains that I am unable to load the nVidia driver without problems. I think, though, that I can safely try to load it again, now that I know how to recover from the XDM issue. I will probably try again at home tonight and see if I can make it work. I'll try with YOU first to see if that will take care of it. If not, I'll install the latest drivers from nVidia's web site.

I'm still jazzed with this Linux distro, though. Despite the video, I'm very impressed with everything. I'm still fired up that my wireless works without any special configurationg outside of the WEP encryption. It's just too cool.

Hi there,

just for the record: I have the same resolution problem as SchadeBoy when I enable 3D accelleration. I am running on similar Hardware:

Dell Lattitude C840
Pentium 4 2.2 GHz
1 Gig RAM
nVidia GForce 440 64 MB
Dual Booting Windows XP SP2
and SUSE 9.3 Pro

To me it looks like the driver sets up the resolution just fine, but then fails to initialize the drawing area with the same size.

Could it be that there is a RAM overhead associated with the 3D that the card is not being able to supply in full resolution? I don't think so, native resulution at 4 bytes is below 8 MBytes and I tried to set up lower color depths, too - didn't help.

Cheers!

Andy

Hi I have the same problem and everything...

at start up i get no login screen

so i went to failsafe text-mode installed the drivers all ok

but when i try to run sax2 ( in fail safe mode ) sh*t gets error fails

some time ago in an different installation i had the login screen and 2d support but now even that i don't

what's going on?

Tank you


* someone wrote something above about kernel-modules?

Dist Suse 9.2

ok

the last time i got a very poor sax2 screen

but now its ok but the thing doesn't start by it self

i've first to type the command "kdm" and change to kde

3d support is on

i've disable kdm support at installation time because of the blank screen in order to get text mode because installing the drivers from fail-safe didn't seem to support X

actually i don't need that stupid nvidia splash image

I don't have an isp that supports linux so no YOU for me.I've got the nvidia 7174 drivers.The problem seems to be an incompatibility with the 2.6.11 kernel.

I get the error message that there are no pre compiled kernel modules.install failed.any new/altered/netter drivers out to fix this yet?

Install the 'kernel-source' package and you will be able to compile the drivers yourself.

so i did it works fine now, tanx anyway

ok I reinstalled the kernel source.I went into the correct directory and ran make menuconfig. How do I recompile what I need to make this work?I didn't see anything listed to create my own new modules. can you elaborate please?

Just install the kernel-source package, change to /usr/src/linux, run make cloneconfig & make prepare-all and reinstall the NVidia driver.

ok I'll give it a shot.thanx.

modprobe nvidia NVreg_SoftEDIDs=0 NVreg_Mobile=0

Gets rid of those coloured lines for me!!