I have a MSI 945GM3 INTEL P4 631+ 3.0G
17inch MEI Freq 69-120
Opensuse 64bit 10.2

Have loaded this system bare without Nvidia 7300GT
No Issues

Installed 7300GT did reload and it loaded nothing on the screen after loading into X hear the start up audio for gnome. No video at all hit alt+F1 can get diffrent terminals. Sax2 don't even display.

Failsafe mode work like a charm in X

In Failsafe in X load new nvidia drivers the out come not pretty couldn't do nothing with sax2 or X in failsafe then it glitched(Random ASCII chars) out.

Did a reload lower freq of monitor 69 to 85 instead of 69to 120.

I have try diffrent Option "UseEDID" "False" in
Xconf and Option "Mode Validation" "NoEDIDModes"

I have google search and tried but I am brought to my knees on this problem. Would hate to have to take out my 7300GT.

Some words of advice on this subject is to start by making sure that the card is securely in place. Also make sure that if your card requires you to plug into the 12v power supply then make sure that is securely in place. I would also get some dust off and blow some air in whichever interface your card sits in. PCI Express ? If you rule out hardware problems I would then try starting over with your configurations. To do so I would try the following.
Open up a console and type the following.

su
mkdir /etc/X11/bup
cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/bup
rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf

remove your NVIDIA driver by doing the following. I used driver version NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9755 as an example in the following.

cd /home/linuxsu/Downloads //this is the directory that contained my driver download.
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9755-pkg2.run --uninstall
init 3
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9755-pkg2.run //follow directions to reinstall the driver.
sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia //reconfigure xorg.conf
nvidia-xconfig
reboot

Hopefully this helps. If not you can issue the following commands to get you back to your original configuration.

su
rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
cp /etc/X11/bup/xorg.conf /etc/X11/

Have fun.

I have the suse Linux 9.1 installed on a Toshiba laptop that does not have a build in wireles card but I do have a pcmia wireless card SMC and trying to find a drver that will work with it or do have to go buy another card thats compatable?

Lateef, please start a new thread on that subject as it does not pertain to this thread. This is a standard practice when posting questions as it avoids confusion as to what subject anyone might be replying to. So go ahead and start a new thread and I will happily reply to your question. Thank you.

I did a reload and ran YaST in regular mode and did nvidia driver updates. Still same problem but no glitching.

Found this https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=160812
it fits my problem exactly. I can't really see whats going on and if it was patched or fixed.

Ty for quick reply Unmindfulawe.

Ok I contacted one of the people at the url above. The person reply quick and without any anger witch is cool. They took a moment of their time to reply with this comment.

The patch has only been applied for openSUSE 10.3(still in Alpha state). See comment #87 for a work around on openSUSE 10.2.

#87
I finally found out when the Xserver doesn't display anything at all any more.

It happens exactly (no matter weather 32 or 64bit) when a 1024x768 fb mode is
set during boot (tried 0x317 (16bit) and 0x318 (24bit)). In this case both
1024x768 and 1280x1024 didn't produce any displayed image, and I assume other
resolutions behave the same.

If a 1280x1024 fb mode (0x31a) or a 800x600 fb mode (0x314) is used, both
1024x768 and 1280x1024 worked fine.

I am not real sure what fb mode is or where to set it. I am going to do more research on this if find anything I will post it.

fb stands for frambuffer. And the workaround is when you boot your system and it goes to grub or lilo you can put some options to send to the kernel. The option that was recommended as a workaround was to place "vga=0x31a" for a 1280x1024 mode or "vga=0x314" for 640x480. Either mode in their testing seemed to be a valid workaround. Have fun.

Unmindfulawe ty like your ideal better. I switch drivers from nvidia to fbdev then change monitor to vesa 1280x1024.
It did work but its easier to do what you said. The video is real sluggish. sax2 was accessible with this command sax2 -m 0=fbdev(can't change res in fb mode). In grub boot options I typed "vga=0x31a" but might try the other see if its a little less sluggish.
I run a dual boot system maybe use onboard for linux and for gaming in windows use nvidia. I can enable xgl with onboard intel 945.

Thank You again