After major upgrade, black screen follows login though nouveau already installed

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Had a major upgrade yesterday with 1927 packages (openSUSE 20160422), kernel 4.5.0-3-default.
After signing in (Plasma 5/KDE Plasma Workspace), openSUSE screen turns to black with only a mouse cursor. This is the first time the problem occurs whereas before none happens even after a major kernel update. I have “nomodeset” in the kernel boot option. I always use nouveau instead of proprietary nvidia driver because my video card is legacy, i.e. GeForce 6600GT.

Reboot into level 3. “Zypper in xf86-video-nouveau” indicates this driver pkg is already installed, so are the 2 dependent packages. All 3 are the latest:

xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.12-1.2.x86_64
libvdpau_nouveau-112.0-1352.x86_64
libdrm_nouveau2-2.4.67-1.2.x86_64

For some reasons, nouveau is not recognized by the new kernel. Any suggestions to help me get my desktop back?
Thanks for your help.

:frowning:

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It is working fine for me, with GeForce 6150LE card (64-bit).

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Intel here and fine
But have you tried without nomodeset
And what happens if you switch the login to IceWM?

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Hello caf4926,

Same problem even without “nomodeset” in kernel boot option. I can log in into icewm but I don’t like the desktop. By the way, xf86-video-nv is already installed with the latest version 2.1.20-11.1-x86_64. On the same machine, Leap 42.1 has the similar 4 nouveau-related packages (different version numbers) and gives me no problems logging into Plasma or KDE Plasma workspace.

Is there any way I can access YAST Softwarre Management from run level 3? I want to see if there’s the feasibility of upgrading or downgrading nouveau and kernel firmware packages to a different version.

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As root type yast

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Good news - (Pls help mark PROBLEM SOLVED).

Perusing openSUSE Forums further until pages 5-6, I came across a thread in which it was suggested to force re-installation of plasma5-workspace package:


zypper in -f plasma5-workspace

This doesn’t help me. Rebooting into iceWM, I found underneath the less attractive desktop is a full-functioning openSUSE distro. Went into YAST > Software Management, found several update versions for plasma5-related packages. If I choose to select updating the package on top of the list, i.e. plasma5-desktop, the upgrade is impossible due to dependencies. Only after selecting to update plasma5-workspace-branding-openSuse FIRST, i.e. further down the list, do I succeed in updating:


Installation successfully installed. Updated 7 packages (to the latest version):

desktop-data-openSUSE
plasma5-desktop-5.6.2-1.2-x86_64
plasma5-desktop-branding-openSUSE-13.3-7.1
plasma5-workspace-5.6.2-1.2
plasma5-workspace-branding-openSUSE-13.3-7.1
plasma5-workspace-libs4.6.2-1.2
wallpaper-branding-opensuse

Now I can log into both KDE Plasma Workspace and Plasma5 desktops!

lol!

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Good news
Yes, as ugly as IceWM might be it gives you a fully functioning UI

You may have repos I do not have
I’m pretty much default

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Slightly worse but similar problem here. Nvidia driver and Nouveau driver both completely non functional with the april 30th upgrade.

I can stop display-manager and delete the xorg.conf and can get a vesa 1024x768 video mode to start up with startx, but my nvidia video card is completely non usable on this release of tumbleweed.

(Update: I suspect it’s just the standard thing that every time the opensuse tumbleweed kernel is re-updated my custom nvidia-tweaked initrd is torched, and I must re-run the NVIDIA binary driver install.)

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