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One more update... Apparently you will need to get the OpenSUSE Nvidia drivers as described at this link:<br />
&nbsp;<a href="http://en.opensuse.org/New_NVIDIA_car" rel="ugc nofollow">http://en.opensuse.org/New<wbr />_NVIDIA_ca<wbr />r</a> <br />

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One more update... Apparently you will need to get the OpenSUSE Nvidia drivers as described at this link:
 http://en.opensuse.org/New_NVIDIA_car [http://en.opensuse.org/New_NVIDIA_car]


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Your solution worked, with minor variations. Based on your comments about eye candy, I reinstalled Linux eliminating the Desktop Effects pattern. Everything looks stable.
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Your solution worked, with minor variations. Based on your comments about eye candy, I reinstalled Linux eliminating the Desktop Effects pattern. Everything looks stable.

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I was configuring a fresh install of OpenSUSE 11.1 Linux. While I was working on the graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200) and display, I somehow set all pixels to 'white'. This severely limits use of a gui. :-) I've tried various ways to fix this but nada. My latest attempt was to reinstall everything from scratch. No change. My question:<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;How can I get my monitor display back in a usable condition?
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I was configuring a fresh install of OpenSUSE 11.1 Linux. While I was working on the graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200) and display, I somehow set all pixels to 'white'. This severely limits use of a gui. :-) I've tried various ways to fix this but nada. My latest attempt was to reinstall everything from scratch. No change. My question:

     How can I get my monitor display back in a usable condition?

How can I get my monitor display back in a usable condition?

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