[KLUG Members] re: ugrade problems

[Andrew Thompson]

On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 18:20 -0700, fireball9207 at charter.net wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I ran an upgrade on open suse 10.0 a couple of days ago, included was
> the Nvidia upgrade. Now that I have rebooted a couple of times, I have
> a monitor issue: It will not come on. It was working up to a certain
> point after the upgrade, then it went asleeping, and won't wake up. I
> don't have another video card, and am wondering if anyone has any idea
> of what to do to get the upgrade deleted while the monitor is asleep? 

When you say it won't come on, do you mean it just won't display
graphics, or it won't display anything at all? If you can still see text
scrolling up the screen on bootup, then you probably just need to
rebuild and reinstall. nVidia's native drivers. I've had to do that
several times myself; basically, whenever I updated the kernel, or put
in a new distro entirely.

SuSE 9.2, has a package to do it, called "nvidia-installer." I think you
have to download it separately from the main distro because of patent or
copyright issues, but you should be able to find it online. If you can't
find it for SuSE, nVidia itself offers Linux drivers that you should be
able to build on just about any distro. Check their site, and go from
there.

Good luck!

-- 
Andrew Thompson <tempes at ameritech.net>
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