hang at black screen after boot
 

After I installed the nvidia drivers for Suse 10.2 (through Yast), when I rebooted, after the nvidia logo appeared, a black screen appeared. On this screen, I see only the mouse cursor, which appears as a black 'x.' I can get to the console with ctrl+alt+f2. When I tried to reset the window manager (rcxdm restart), I get the same logo and then black screen.

I reinstalled linux, hoping to finally rid myself of this problem. After reinstalling, I get the exact same error. The only difference is that now I don't have the nvidia driver installed. Hence, I get the black screen, but there's no nvidia logo before it.

I have 2 geforce 7600 cards in my system.

Thanks for the help.

in the console can you take a look at the X log for errors and post anything you think looks relevant? for Xorg the file is /var/log/Xorg.0.log. for XFree86 (if thats what SuSE 10.2 uses, im not exactly sure) its probably somewhere close to there.

also, for Xorg, there is a command 'xorgconfig' you can run at the console to configure the X-server. try running that (or the XFree86 equivalent) if you havent already.

example. to see all lines with errors from the Xorg log, i would run: grep EE /var/log/Xorg.0.log

hope it helps.

manually running xorgconf seems to have fixed it. However, when I reinstall nvidia drivers, might the problem recur?

I reinstalled the nvidia drivers, then ran sax2. I get the following error:

access to your display has been granted
ups lost card during probing... abort
something went wrong while X was called with -probeonly
try to call sax2 -p and select a single device

Does this have something to do with having 2 graphics cards?

edit -- it sure did... fixed by running sax2 -c 0, which told it to use only my first card.

ok, glad you got it working.
for my card i always use the nvidia driver from their site. its surprisingly easy to install, and ive never had a problem with it.