Upgraded my display adaptor and now when I choose SuSE at the boot menu it will start to load everything (listed w/details option=start) but then it is unable to enter the Multiuser Level 5...it drops me to the root directory.

No idea what to do/run at the prompt. I was hoping HAL would
detect and add the drivers for it (if thats what HAL does)...no such luck regardless. Thoughts/Ideas ? Thanks

Try running the text mode utility "yast" and see if you can update the basic graphic drivers thru the online update tool. This should at least give you some graphical functionality. From there to get 3d acceleration, you will still have to get the latest linux drivers from the card manufacturers site and update it.

I know what your talking about though, I use an Nvidia card and had the same thing happen to me.

yes Dutch, above is my new video card...will try the yast option you mentioned...will keep you posted...thanks.

point...when I chose "Software update" it provided me with a site and the available patches were shown but of course none of them had anything to do with my new video card. When I navigated to the Hardware section and highlighted the subsection labeled "Graphics Card and Monitor" I hit the enter key and the screen just blinked at me...the subsection "Graphics....etc" doesnt display any info that I can act on.

Any other suggestions...or perhaps does my install disk have any tools/info that I can use to get my video card recognized. Could I download a driver file compatible with Linux to XP and burn it to DVD...mount the dvd drive and install the drv file that way? Thoughts?

SuSE 10.0 & 10.1 have a hidden secret -- tiny-nvidia-installer. Run from level 3 as root and answer the questions. The latest nvidia driver that works with you card or chip set will be loaded and compiled for your kernel. You of course need kernel-sources, gcc and make.

following the syntax for the nvidia installer? As root I enter...??? > ./nvidia-installer or > ./tiny-nvidia-installer ?

"tiny-nvidia-installer" because its an executable binary. "./" is used for bash scripts. Hope it all works for you.

following happened:
After running the 'tiny-nvidia-installer' I had to add the '--update' because my nvidia-installer wasnt a complete installer...???...ok no biggy...after running the 'update' I was informed that 'No precompiled interface was found to match your kernel - download one from nvidia site?'...I said yes. Then another error message appeared: 'No precompiled kernel interface was found on the nvidia site. This means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for your kernel....I said OK...and finally the last error message appeared:

'Error: the kernel header file '/lib/modules/2.6.13-15.8-default/build/include/linux/kernel.h' does not exist. The most likely reason for this is that the kernel path /lib/modules/2.6.13-15.8-default/build is incorrect. Please make sure you have installed the kernel source file for your kernel and that they are properly configured.'

Roadblock after roadblock...I'm pretty sure I removed all source packages after install/update of SuSE10...yast allowed for that option. One last question if I may, would reinstalling SuSE10 fix this problem or would I still have the video driver issue (ie...would the reinstall/yast crash upon detection of card)...I'm not sure if I understand all the error messages and what to do about them. Not looking for an easy fix but getting tired of chasing my tail. Thoughts please, and thanks a bunch for your time.

The NVIDIA driver is a kernel module which has "glue" which connects it to the kernel. This must be compiled. You need the source code of the kernel to do this, since the binary interfaces of the kernel are not consistent.
Install the rpm

kernel-source-"kernelversion"."architecture".rpm

Update on my discovery of tiny-nvidia-installer. It worked great with SuSE 10.0 and SuSE 10.1 RC3. I just downloaded the final 10.1 GM release. The driver seemed to install but this time it prevented the starting of X because it left graphic in an unworkable state. The driver downloaded from nvidia was same same as for my first two tries. This seems to be an openSuSE problem. For now with 10.1 GM stick with the basic non-3D nv driver the install will load.

it was the only option I could think of...my data was on a partition all by itself so reinstalling SuSE10 was the way I went...and it worked...during the install/online update a Nvidia driver was found...I allowed the download and install and now SuSE10 boots just fine with all the correct drivers installed.

Had I not separated my data from the OS I'd probably still be sitting here typing in WinXP...this time around I kept the source files on my HD...thanks for all your input! Sincerely!