Have a used Dell Precision T7500 (2x Xeon E5645 @2.4 GHz, 24 GB RAM) with an NVIDIA NVS 295 here. Worked fine for some weeks with PCBSD, but I decided to switch to Suse. Downloaded 42.1 on Saturday and installed, worked fine initially.
After some 2 h or configuration and installation, I clicked on a link and the screen went black. Reacted to nothing, no console available, totally dead, had to press power button long to get it down. The same happened for another 3 times in the following hours when trying to start a program.
Did a Memtest (still running), no errors detected.
Anyone else experiencing black screens of death with 42.1? Never have seen this, running 13.x on other Dell Precision T7500, 690 or whatever…
Hi both of you! Many thanxs for timely reply! Any logs that might give a valuable hint on the potential problems with the graphics driver? MAny thanx in advance!
…for the record: added NVIDIA repo with priority 60, ran “zyper inr” in root shell… Will reboot next (and remove nouveau then) and see, if it is more stable now.
After reboot no X came back, just a black screen. I can log into the concole, but have no idea what to do there, starting x fails and recommends running a display manager. HOW? What a nonsense… :-\
Windows 95 was more productive than this mess… Put some 6 hours of configuration into this mess and now there is no desktop. Why release an OS when not even the graphics driver is stable? headshake
Please watch your tone. Especially if you want help here.
It is very usable for many people.
But apparently something went wrong with your driver installation.
Better calm down and tell what your exact problem is.
E.g. when you get a “black screen”, is it really completely black? Or do you still have a mouse pointer?
Try pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace twice, that should get you back to the login screen. Does it?
You should be able to select something different than KDE at the login screen
Or, how do you try to start X when logging into a console.
And do you get an error message?
A good start then would be to post /var/log/Xorg.0.log to find out why you have problems.
Btw, the nvidia graphics driver is provided by NVidia, not openSUSE. Better complain to them if it doesn’t work.
You should try booting to “Emergency” or Recovery mode when your GRUB menu comes up.
When you make that selection, you should be using the GRUB VESA driver instead of your Nouveau or nVidia driver which can be useful for troubleshooting… both to verify your problem is indeed the Nouveau or nVidia drivers and to have a graphical Desktop while troubleshooting.
Black means black… But wait, after waiting half an hour, there is a monster “X” cursor on the screen. But waint, now it’s gone again, after pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, which brings me basically nowhere, I sometimes see the login screen for the console for a few milliseconds, than it black again. The error message is file /home/user/.serverauth.61122 does not exist … server already running … blah blah… /usr/bin/Xorg is not setuid,… I have no idea how to get out this log from a system without running x…
On the grub boot screen, hit the ‘e’ key. That allows you to edit the boot command line.
Scroll down until you find a line that starts with “linux” (or it might be “linuxefi”).
Hit the “END” key to get to the end of that line. The append " nomodeset" to that boot line.
Continue to boot. I think that’s F10, but the screen tells you which key.
That should get you into X, though the graphics quality might be poor.
Now check whether you have the right nvidia driver installed.
If you use KDE, then maybe while in KDE, use
Desktop settings –> Display and Monitor –> Compositor
and set the “Rendering Backend” to “XRender”.
Then try rebooting again, this time without the “nomodeset”.
Hmm, if you already have the nvidia driver installed, then the above might not work.
Not really, depending on your definition of black…
And having a black screen without a mouse cursor might indicate a different problem as having a black screen with a mouse cursor…
But wait, after waiting half an hour, there is a monster “X” cursor on the screen.
So apparently X is starting, probably only after half an hour.
You seem to have a problem with the login screen though.
But waint, now it’s gone again, after pressing Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, which brings me basically nowhere, I sometimes see the login screen for the console for a few milliseconds, than it black again.
Try to set DISPLAYMANAGER=“xdm” in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager. You can do that with a text editor in text mode, press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get there, then login as root and modify the file.
Do you get a (basic) login screen then?
Can you login?
The error message is file /home/user/.serverauth.61122 does not exist … server already running … blah blah… /usr/bin/Xorg is not setuid,… I have no idea how to get out this log from a system without running x…
You cannot run startx as user, you need to be root for this (for security reasons).
That’s like it is since years, nothing new with Leap…
"Try to set DISPLAYMANAGER=“xdm” in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager. " I tried with kwriter, but got an error QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display I give in, moving back to Win 7 Pro… Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your time, after 2006 the second trial to use suse for more than little browsing etc. failed…really frustrated after 6 h configuration and stuff…
You cannot use kwrite in text mode.
Use something like vim (takes a bit to get used to though), joe, pico, or nano (not sure at the moment which one of the latter three is installed by default)
I give in, moving back to Win 7 Pro… Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your time, after 2006 the second trial to use suse for more than little browsing etc. failed…really frustrated after 6 h configuration and stuff…
