[nflug] ssh -X works, nvidia doesn't

[Stephen Burke]

Darin Perusich wrote:
> you where connecting from a windows machine right? maybe the xserver
> wasn't running.

Actually, I got cygwin working (thanks to a geek-blog entry I found out 
there - http://www.pankaj-k.net/archives/2004/09/making_cygwinx.html), 
so the remote X angle works well for me on the M$ side of this 
dual-boot. The difficulty was all here on the suse10 side, which, 
happily, still works.

> have you seen SuSe nvidia page?
> http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html
> 
I had, in fact, been to that page before, but in my impatience didn't 
really thoroughly read the part about how to get YOU to reinstall the 
nvidia driver, so thanks for directing my attention back there.

However, after once AGAIN having YOU install the nvidia driver and then 
restarting X as suggested, sax2 still sends me to the black screen of no 
return, so I am rather at a loss about where to go from here.

At first I was ready to apologize for being such an idiot and not 
following that page's directions more carefully, but something is 
clearly not happening correctly here, even though YOU appears to be 
installing things without any complaints. Maybe I'm not completely inept 
after all?

Perhaps it needs to be installed 3 times? Don't know. I'm about ready to 
try installing the old driver I have (which worked for suse8.2), but 
first I think I need to make a backup image of this system or something 
since, except for the nvidia part, it is finally working pretty much the 
way I want it to (and I have already fried things once by installing the 
latest driver) - the actual attempted installations here (2 or 3 before 
things actually worked properly), for some reason, kept including 
various failed packages, despite the fact that all my md5sums matched 
the ones on the server and k3b also verified the burned data as complete 
and matching. Starting over from reformatting AGAIN is a bit more than I 
want to deal with right now, despite wanting everything to work.

Is there a preferred method of backing things up/ making an image of the 
current system before I break it all again? That part is totally new to 
me, since I've just been starting over every time (quite a few by now) 
that I have fried things (here and else where).

Thanks,
S.

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