Strange problems after installing new video card


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I just installed a PNY GF FX 5200 and have the same problem with SUSE 9 and Slack 9.1, both - when using the nvidia module - mess up like I've never seen before if you log out and log back into X. There is nothing displayed in the logs but when I log back in no applications will start up they simply segment whenever I try to load them. Occasionally the system will completely freeze when I try and log back in, the only option is to telnet in and kill X. When I reboot everything works fine (until I log out of X, that is). I originally had an older nvidia driver on SUSE (the one before the latest) and updating to the latest made no difference. I tried using the latest on slack too and this caused the same problem, so I've had to revert to using the nv module. The card works absolutely perfectly in Windows so it isn't a hardware issue, the machine worked fine before and I've tested RAM.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this?

EDIT: Forgot to mention that switching to runlevel 3 then starting X or going back to 5 makes no difference, a reboot is the only way I've found of solving the problem.

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After installing it, get into command line (do not start X), then run xfree86 by typing such. It might not be xfree86, it might be named slightly different, but usually it is that.

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