Ok, I have tried everything that I know how to do, and can’t get it
working…
The last opensuse security update required a kernel update. I am using
an nvidia graphics card in my desktop (information below), and after the
kernel update, I cannot get the display manager back. When the system
boots up, the display manager screen is just blank. If I hit
ctrl-alt-f1, I can work with the system in terminal mode, and networking
is enabled and working, but no chance of doing anything in graphical mode.
At first I could at least boot back into the old kernel by selecting
“advanced options” in the grub menu and selecting the old kernel, which
would make everything work. But then, I decided I really wanted to try
and make this work on the new kernel, so I tried to install the nvidia
proprietary driver the hard way, by downloading it and following the
opensuse SDB on how to do that, but that required me to uninstall the
old nvidia driver from the nvidia repositories.
I uninstalled the old nvidia driver and its associated files, but when I
went to install the downloaded nvidia driver (from the nvidia website),
it wouldn’t install, saying that some files in
/usr/src/linux/include/ did not exist. I did not know how to mess with
that, so I gave up trying to install the nvidia driver that I
downloaded, and decided to go back to the nvidia driver from the
repositories. I ran a zypper inr and it reinstalled everything (and it
did update the nvidia driver).
But now, I can’t even go back to the old kernel and get into my system.
It is totally unusable, at least as far as being able to use it
normally. Since it boots into run level 3, I can ssh into it from my
laptop and copy and paste any information I want into an email or forum
post, so that will help troubleshooting.
Here is my information:
# uname -r
4.1.21-14-default
I do have the nvidia repository for opensuse 42.1 enabled, and this
worked fine until this kernel update.
You can see the nvidia packages installed from the nvidia repository:
# rpm -qa | grep nvidia
x11-video-nvidiaG04-361.42-21.1.x86_64
nvidia-gfxG04-kmp-default-361.42_k4.1.12_1-21.1.x86_64
nvidia-computeG04-361.42-21.1.x86_64
nvidia-glG04-361.42-21.1.x86_64
You can see I have blacklisted nouveau:
# cat /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf | grep nouveau
blacklist nouveau
yet for some reason nouveau is what the system is looking to, without
activating it:
# hwinfo --gfxcard
31: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
[Created at pci.366]
Unique ID: VCu0.EgDDUIJEk94
Parent ID: _Znp.FMDgKnDywJ4
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:01:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
Hardware Class: graphics card
Model: "nVidia GF108 [GeForce GT 730]"
Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
Device: pci 0x0f02 "GF108 [GeForce GT 730]"
SubVendor: pci 0x1462 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI]"
SubDevice: pci 0x8a9f
Revision: 0xa1
Memory Range: 0xfd000000-0xfdffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xf8000000-0xf9ffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
I/O Ports: 0xe000-0xefff (rw)
Memory Range: 0xfe000000-0xfe07ffff (ro,non-prefetchable,disabled)
IRQ: 10 (no events)
Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000F02sv00001462sd00008A9Fbc03sc00i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: nouveau is not active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nouveau"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #10 (PCI bridge)
Primary display adapter: #31
I would really appreciate it if someone can help me get my system back
up and running!
I also tried nomodeset, and it still wouldn’t go to graphical mode.
–
G.O.
Box: 42.1 | KDE Plasma 5 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB
Laptop #1: 42.1 | KDE Plasma 5 | Core i7-4710HQ | 64 | 16GB
Laptop #2: 42.1 | KDE Plasma 5 | Core i5 | 64 | 8GB