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Mistshadow:
I'm waiting for my copy of SuSE 9.0 to get here (since if I tried to download and install it by ftp it wouldn't get it finished before 10 came out) so I just updated 8.2 to the 2.4 kernel. While it was at it, it updated my NVidia drivers and enabled 3d. Now it won't boot up into XWindows, only a console login. Everytime I try, the xserver just crashes. Needless to say, I'm a bit miffed. :mad:  

Ok, so what did it? Was it the new kernel or the drivers? What shoudl I do to keep this from happening again?    :confused:   Anyone?

hm_murdock:
Oooh... that's a hard call. It could be the X server... but it could be for multiple reasons... if you updated the kernel, it's possible that the X server is failing  because of incompatibilites with SuSE's compile of 2.4. It could also be failing simply because it's a shitty version of that server.

Is there a way to revert back to your previous kernel and X server easily?

flap:
Are you saying you did recompile/reinstall the nvidia drivers? If not, do that.

Mistshadow:
Well, so far as I understand it, the update program just downloaded an updated, full version of the latest NVidia drivers; before, it was using the basic driver included without 3d. I didn't compile them myself.

Same with the kernel; SuSE did that itself, not me - and for much the same reason, the two times I've recompiled a kernel, it was a disaster (ugh). So it could be either or both; the driver or the way SuSE compiled the new kernel.

Unfortunately, if there's an easy way to revert back, I don't know what it is. I guess I can just reinstall. Luckliy I didn't have any vital files on the hard drive.

I guess when that copy of 9.0 gets here, I'm going to do some googling before my NVidia drivers are touched. I don't know whether I'll let SuSE update it and enable 3d (I really want 3d enabled because I have a few 3d games) or download and install the full drivers myself. Probably the latter. So I guess I'll just have to experiment to figure out what to/not do.

At any rate, at least 9.0 has the 2.4 kernel already, so I won't have to update that; I'll wait for a new distro version to be built on 2.6 instead of updating it. It seems like everytime the kernel is even glanced at in whatever distro I'm using at the time it's a catastrophe.    :rolleyes:  

Sorry for the long post, but let this serve as a warning for anyone else updating the kernel and NVidia driver at the same time; back up everything first!

[ January 11, 2004: Message edited by: Mistshadow ]

Uipe:
Could you post the error mensage please without it it's very hard to help you out

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