Thanks for the verry quick reply, 20 minutes! On 10/29/07, Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What video card are you using? A Nvidia Geforce 6200 on AGP and a Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 on PCI > Are you > using the default of the binary drivers provided by the video card > manufacturer? I used the drivers provided by Nvidia succesfully up to yesterday. This morning (when gnome failed to start properly) I tried rewriting xorg.conf with xorgconfig and the default drivers. This failed (or I wouldnt have mailed). > Did this start happening after you played with the video > settings? Yesterday I got my wacom up and running, so I edited xorg.conf manually. I restarted suse succesfully after that > Or has it been this way from a fresh install? nope > > You could try logging in into a terminal and running sax2 and > reconfiguring your video settings to see if that helps. > > These are the general steps I follow when I am chasing down a video > problem.... > the results of the steps described below (for as far as I could perform them) After I typed sax2 it tried to start X. This failed a couple of times, so Sax2 gave me this error message: ups lost during card probing Something went wrong while x was called with --probeonly
> Go to a terminal login (press Ctrl+Alt+F1). Log in as root. Type: > init 3. This drops you out of graphical mode... press enter to get > your prompt back. Now type: sax2 When it starts you will get a > message to accept things as they are or change them. You want to > select the option to change the settings. Once you are into the main > interface, you can look at the settings and see if any need to be > changed. Once you are done there, make sure you Test the settings. > If it passes the test, Save and exit. > > Now, to test things further, switch to a new terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F2). > Log in as your regular user. Type: startx If all is OK, your GUI > (KDE/Gnome etc) will start. If it fails, you will be dropped back to > the command line with hopefully some information about why X is not > starting up. Report back to the list with the error message.... > > If it all works, exit the GUI, log out. Switch back to the terminal > where you logged in as root (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and type: init 5 This > should move you back to run level 5, and start GDM/KDM and you will > get your usual graphical login screen. You should be able to log in > and start X normally now. > > C. > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
