I’ve just installed 12.2 and was trying to sort out the nVidia driver, when I must have clicked the wrong thing. After rebooting I now have a blank screen. I must now have a corrupt driver - if I have one at all!
How do I get a working driver back? Nouveau would be acceptable, since I would be able to start working on upgrading again.
The only thing I can think of is to do a clean install again, but I’d like to avoid that if at all possible, just for the time involved - though that would be a price worth paying to get a usable computer.
Well I didn’t mean to makwe the computer unusable by getting a blank screen. I think I may have accidentally uninstalled an nVidia file.
However, this isn’t really the point. My question is how do I get my display back? Do I have to do a full reinstall or is there a quicker way of getting nouveau’s functionality back? Or even skipping that and getting a driver that works well.
On 08/29/2012 09:46 PM, johngwalker wrote:
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> Do I have to do a full reinstall or is there a quicker way
> of getting nouveau’s functionality back?
it seems you are not sure if you actually “clicked the wrong thing” or
if you installed a nvidia driver…but, if you did, maybe if you boot
and at the first green screen type this into the “Boot Options” line,
and then hit enter, you might get back into your system:
HOWEVER, if you did not accidentally install the wrong nvidia driver
then none of that is going to help, because there is some other
problem…and, if you have some other problem then that might be because
of some problem your hardware is having with 12.2, and reinstalling is
likely to lead to the same problem again (assuming you didn’t click the
wrong thing)…
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:46:03 +0000, johngwalker wrote:
> Well I didn’t mean to makwe the computer unusable by getting a blank
> screen. I think I may have accidentally uninstalled an nVidia file.
>
> However, this isn’t really the point. My question is how do I get my
> display back? Do I have to do a full reinstall or is there a quicker way
> of getting nouveau’s functionality back? Or even skipping that and
> getting a driver that works well.
It’s rare to need to do a reinstall in order to get things working. It
is, however, sometimes more expedient.
When you boot the system, do you get the grub menu? If you do, you can
boot to text mode (enter ‘3’ as a parameter) and work recovery from there
probably uninstalling the nvidia driver would be sufficient to force it
back to using the nouveau driver.
I know what I did - I accidentally (don’t ask) installed a wrong driver via Yast, attempted to reverse what I’d done and obviously deleted something that I shouldn’t have. What I don’t know is what it is I deleted. I think it must be something to do with nouveau, but that’s just guessing.
I don’t seem to be getting the Grub menu, but I can, I’ve discovered, get a screen up using recovery mode. I think I now need to follow the instructions on how to install an nvidia driver the hard way. Any other suggestions would be extremely useful.
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:16:03 +0000, johngwalker wrote:
> I know what I did - I accidentally (don’t ask) installed a wrong driver
> via Yast, attempted to reverse what I’d done and obviously deleted
> something that I shouldn’t have. What I don’t know is what it is I
> deleted. I think it must be something to do with nouveau, but that’s
> just guessing.
Reinstalling that should just be a matter of reinstalling the xorg-x11-
driver-video-nouveau package, AFAIK.
> I don’t seem to be getting the Grub menu, but I can, I’ve discovered,
> get a screen up using recovery mode. I think I now need to follow the
> instructions on how to install an nvidia driver the hard way. Any other
> suggestions would be extremely useful.
Hmmm, if you’re not getting a grub menu, then there’s a bigger issue than
just the video driver for X11, because nouveau and the X11 driver
subsystem (perhaps obviously) don’t have anything to do with grub.
> Any other
> suggestions would be extremely useful.
Considering you are probably just messing with 12.2, I know what I would do if I couldn’t figure it out…#
Just install again, as it only takes 15 mins.
But if you figured out how to install the wrong driver
You should be able install the correct one.
I got the correct driver installed without having to reinstall! The problem was that I’d spent a long time loading data from backup. That’s what I didn’t want to do again.
But I don’t seem to have menu.lst in /boot/grub. It doesn’t look like this is causing a problem (at the moment) but what should I do about this? I can’t do things like add “nomodeset” to the boot options, which everyone seems to think I ought to do.