nvidia driver 190.42 problem

[deivisposkus]

Hello, I faced a problem after installing Nvidia driver 190.42 on 11.2 rc2 x64. Description is short : I can not login into because a screen is black... I can see nothing even a mouse pointer... Boot menu gives 2 options-standart and failsafe but both does not work.

[caf4926]

Have you observed the usual prerequisites for manual installation?

[friggos]

same problem here. i have nvidia Geforce GT 230M. Keyboard, mouse and screen (black screen like the power of the display is off,after the use of the driver) are freezed even if i remotely log in and switch into init 3. I have to remotely-safely reboot, start suse into init 3 and configure xorg with sas2-vesa.

[deivisposkus]

well if about prerequisites. I installed what was needed - gcc;make,kernel etc. Install in init 3 went smooth with all confirmations but after that - just a black screen.

[BenderBendingRodriguez]

Have you used sax2 -r 0m 0=nvidia after the installation?

I had no problems at all with 190.42 on 11.2 RC2. I have the 8800GT.

[deivisposkus]

The thing is that after install I got that problem -just a black screen and there is no way to get into command line. Help appreciated. Mine card is Geforce 7600M.

[BenderBendingRodriguez]

It might be some BUG within the drivers, unfortunatelly because of their closed source nature we can't help much but to propose to check other version of drivers.

[friggos]

Before you boot, in the options line type init 3 in order to configure Xorg to use vesa fb. then login as root and run sax2-vesa. Then switch into init 5. I also believe it might be some BUG within the driver.

[pilotgi]

Originally Posted by deivisposkus

Hello, I faced a problem after installing Nvidia driver 190.42 on 11.2 rc2 x64. Description is short : I can not login into because a screen is black... I can see nothing even a mouse pointer... Boot menu gives 2 options-standart and failsafe but both does not work.

Does ctrl > alt > F1 take you to text mode from your black screen? If it does you can fix your display from there.

Log in as root, then type

rcxdm stop

Make sure the nvidia module is loaded:

lsmod | grep nvidia

If it's not:

modprobe nvidia

Then:

rcxdm start

to get back to the gui.

[Knurpht]

Found this a couple of times last week. Reverting to previous beta 190.40 solved matters.