SuSe crashes when running Sax2

msubieta · 02-18-2005, 03:17 PM

I just installed Suse 9.2 and during the final phase of the installation, the screen went blank and the box crashed. After rebooting the OS worked fine, but when I tried changing the resolution, actually as soon as Sax2 was invoked, it crashed. I ran the configuration from text mode after doing an init 3, and same thing happened. I read somewhere that my video card might be the problem, but I would like to be sure before I download and install the drivers. Thank you.

jdblick · 02-18-2005, 03:32 PM

help us with your vid card and monitor please. What do you mean by crash? Are you no longer to use ctrl-alt f1 and the like?

In case you are having problems with sax2 in higher resolutions you can try it with the -l (dash lower case L) switch and it will start with the old ega (640x480) or whatever.

msubieta · 02-18-2005, 03:39 PM

I have an nVidia RIVA TNT2 Model 64, and my monitor is a Dell 1900FP. When I run Sax2, the box just stops responding, and I actually tried running Sax2 from a ssh connection with the same results. I tried the -l option but still the same crashing problem. Thanks for your help!

abisko00 · 02-19-2005, 08:53 AM

I am just curious: did you run Online Update recently? I have updated a perl package and now sax2 doesn't start anymore. However, I am using 9.1 and it doesn't lock up the whole system.

Zhenya · 02-19-2005, 10:31 AM

What video driver are you using, nvidia or nv? I think the driver might be a problem and you might want to reinstall it. I am not sure with nv, but with nvidia you can download (check reload all patches) in YOU, however, make sure you card is supported by the nvidia driver (check it on the Nvidia web site, linux driver section).