[lug] Nvidia driver disappears

[Steve Sullivan]

Steve,

Thanks for the tip.
I used command-line yast to deinstall and reinstall the modules:
  nvidia-gfx-kmp-bigsmp
  x11-video-nvidia

I rebooted, and still sax2 fails.  When I try to startx, it loops
spewing out messages - the only way out is power off or ctl-alt-del.

Is there something else I need to do to re-install?

Thanks,

Steve


On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 08:49:41AM -0400, steve at badcheese.com wrote:
> You probably upgraded your kernel a while ago and just now rebooted.  Just 
> re-install the nvidia driver and you should be good-to-go.
> 
> - Steve
> 
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Steve Sullivan wrote:
> 
> >Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:52:34 -0600
> >From: Steve Sullivan <sullivan at mathcom.com>
> >Reply-To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
> >    <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> >To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> >Subject: [lug] Nvidia driver disappears
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >My nvidia driver suddenly stopped working.  I didn't make any system
> >changes, but today when I booted the machine X wouldn't come up.
> >Come to think of it, maybe I did use Yast to install whatever patches
> >were current a few days ago.
> >I'm running Suse 10.2 on a dual Intel-32.
> >
> >I tried running sax2 from the command line, but it also
> >failed.  The sax log ends with ...
> >
> >	(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
> >	(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
> >	(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
> >	(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
> >	(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
> >	(==) NVIDIA(0): Using HW cursor
> >	(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
> >	(==) NVIDIA(0): Video key set to default value of 0x101fe
> >	FATAL: Error inserting nvidia 
> >	(/lib/modules/2.6.18.8-0.5-bigsmp/weak-updates/nvidia.ko): No such 
> >	device
> >	(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module!
> >	(EE) NVIDIA(0):  *** Aborting ***
> >	(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
> >	(II) UnloadModule: "ramdac"
> >	(II) UnloadModule: "fb"
> >	(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
> >
> >	Fatal server error:
> >	no screens found
> >
> >So I used command-line yast to deinstall and reinstall the modules:
> > nvidia-gfx-kmp-bigsmp
> > x11-video-nvidia
> >
> >I rebooted, and still sax2 fails.  When I try to startx, it loops
> >spewing out messages - the only way out is power off or ctl-alt-del.
> >Do you have any suggestions?
> >
> >Many thanks,
> >
> >Steve
> >
> >
> >
> 
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