[KLUG Members] re: ugrade problems

[fireball9207 at charter.net]

---- Andrew Thompson <tempes at ameritech.net> wrote: 
> On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 18:20 -0700, fireball9207 at charter.net wrote:

> 
> 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? 

Nothing at all.

If you can still see text
> scrolling up the screen on bootup,

No text when booting up. Just the yellow light like when it's asleep. It's very frustrating, as I don't have the $$ to get a new video card, and the download came from a Yast pugrade site. I'd seen it for a while and thought, well, I might as well just do it, as the video card says nvidia when it comes up. Man, was I ever Wrong on that!! That'll be the last time that I do that kind of upgrade for the video card. Especially when I made sure that every thing that I bought for this box was specifically just for linux. 

thanks Andrew


 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>
> The Imagerie
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