No GUI after attempted 3D desktop (Xgl)

Hello all,

Today I tried to activate the 3D desktop in my OpenSuse 10.3 KDE
installation. It turned out to be a pact with the devil. I have an
nVidia 6600 TurboCache graphical card. I downloaded the compiz package
and nvidia drivers (as mentioned in an online guide, which I had opened
in my Linux desktop I can't find now). Previously I had the nv driver
installed. Anyway, installing the drivers gave some errors, which I
ignored. (systeminfo then showed that the graphical driver was
'unknown', instead of 'nv'.)

I then set the XSERVER in DISPLAYMANAGER to Xgl (it was on nvidia
something I think, not on Xorg). Rebooting did't give the expected
result as I ended up in a command screen instead of the KDE interface.
So I found the XSERVER again in YAST (from the command) and changed Xgl
to Xorg (the 3rd option wasn't there). This didn't work.

So then I ran the following set of command:

init 3
rpm -qa
rpm -e (nothing here)
sax2 -a
gconftool-2 -- recursive - unset /apps/compiz
rm -rf /home/<my user name>/.config/compiz
init 5
restart x (failed, produced an error)

My guess is that the nVidia driver is shot, and I need to reset it to
nv, preferably (that one worked, except for 3D). However, I'm not
exactly an expert. I would greatly appreciate any help, since I have no
idea how to get the normal OS GUI back.  Any suggestions?


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On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:36:01 GMT
mvvdsteen <mvvdsteen@no-mx.forums.novell.com> wrote:

> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Today I tried to activate the 3D desktop in my OpenSuse 10.3 KDE
> installation. It turned out to be a pact with the devil. I have an
> nVidia 6600 TurboCache graphical card. I downloaded the compiz package
> and nvidia drivers (as mentioned in an online guide, which I had
> opened in my Linux desktop I can't find now). Previously I had the nv
> driver installed. Anyway, installing the drivers gave some errors,
> which I ignored. (systeminfo then showed that the graphical driver was
> 'unknown', instead of 'nv'.)
> 
> I then set the XSERVER in DISPLAYMANAGER to Xgl (it was on nvidia
> something I think, not on Xorg). Rebooting did't give the expected
> result as I ended up in a command screen instead of the KDE interface.
> So I found the XSERVER again in YAST (from the command) and changed
> Xgl to Xorg (the 3rd option wasn't there). This didn't work.
> 
> So then I ran the following set of command:
> 
> init 3
> rpm -qa
> rpm -e (nothing here)
> sax2 -a
> gconftool-2 -- recursive - unset /apps/compiz
> rm -rf /home/<my user name>/.config/compiz
> init 5
> restart x (failed, produced an error)
> 
> My guess is that the nVidia driver is shot, and I need to reset it to
> nv, preferably (that one worked, except for 3D). However, I'm not
> exactly an expert. I would greatly appreciate any help, since I have
> no idea how to get the normal OS GUI back.  Any suggestions?
> 
> 
Hi
From the init 3 run sax2 -r 0=nv

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Malcolm;1527267 Wrote: 
> 
> Hi
> From the init 3 run sax2 -r 0=nv
> 

Thanks for your reply. I tried but it doesn't work. It tries to start
an xserver (I think), but fails.

E.g.: "FATAL:module nvidia not found"
and "screens found, but none have a usable configuration"

Could I have accidently deleted the nv driver?


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On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:26:02 GMT
mvvdsteen <mvvdsteen@no-mx.forums.novell.com> wrote:

> 
> Malcolm;1527267 Wrote: 
> > 
> > Hi
> > From the init 3 run sax2 -r 0=nv
> > 
> 
> Thanks for your reply. I tried but it doesn't work. It tries to start
> an xserver (I think), but fails.
> 
> E.g.: "FATAL:module nvidia not found"
> and "screens found, but none have a usable configuration"
> 
> Could I have accidently deleted the nv driver?
> 
> 
Hi
I wouldn't think so, search for nv.ko if it's gone try vesa to get you
started.

Have a look here to install the nvidia driver;
http://en.opensuse.org/Nvidia
and
http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html#5
and
http://en.opensuse.org/Xgl

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On 04/02/2008 mvvdsteen wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. I tried but it doesn't work. It tries to start 
> an xserver (I think), but fails.

Try
sax2 -r -m 0=nv

Note, this is a zero not a capital "o".

If you aren't tired of playing with 3D effects yet, you could also try a
sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia

to see if you *can* get a working config with the NVidia driver.

Uwe

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