Can't boot suse 12.2 (grphics displays all messy)

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Hi,

I recently update suse 12.1 to 12.2 via DVD. I have the the following PC:

CPU INFORMATION:
Processor: Intel(R) Core™ i3-2100 CPU @ 3.10GHz
Speed: 1600,00 MHz
Cores: 4

Display Info
Vendor: nVidia Corporation
Model:
2D driver: fbdev
3D driver: Unknown Gallium (8.0.4)

OS information:
OS: Linux 3.4.6-2.10-desktop x86_64
System: openSUSE 12.2 (x86_64)
KDE: 4.8.5 (4.8.5) "release 2

The problem I have is that when I boot (except in failsafe mode) all graphics seems messy. There are some windows icons (of the other partirion I have) and and mouse pointer is a square.

The only thing I can do there is press Ctrl+Alt+Del and in a “blind mode” (because I’m not able to read anything on the scree) choose Shutdown or Restart.

Thanks in advance for any feeback

regards,

agunet74

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Boot in failsafe mode and install proprietary nVidia drivers.

3

I install some nvidia drivers and my system crashes.
I had to install all my suse 12.2 again. And after that I install some Nvidia drivers, (this time I look very carefully which I had to install) and now I can boot ut with 640 x 480 mode only.

I don’t know how to fix that

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Can you provide more information please :

(1) what is output of sending in a terminal the command:


/sbin/lspci | grep VGA -A2

(2) please open the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log and copy the contents and paste the contents to SUSE Paste and press ‘create’ on that page. It will provide you the URL/web address where your copied Xorg.0.log file is now copied. Please post here that URL so that our graphic guru’s can examine that log file.

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result of (1):
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a2)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
03:00.0 PCI bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1083/1085 PCIe to PCI Bridge (rev 01)

result of (2)
SUSE Paste

Thank you so much for this feedback,

regards,

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Go Yast - System - Sysconfigeditor, search for “KMS”, set the value for the found option to “yes”, then reboot and see what happens.
Also, please post output of


rpm -qa | grep nvidia
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result of

rpm -qa | grep nvidia

nvidia-gfx-kmp-default-96.43.20_k3.4.6_2.10-19.1.x86_64
oyranos-monitor-nvidia-0.4.0-3.1.2.x86_64
x11-video-nvidia-96.43.20-20.1.x86_64

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Am 28.09.2012 00:46, schrieb agunet74:
>
> result of
>
> rpm -qa | grep nvidia
>
>
> nvidia-gfx-kmp-default-96.43.20_k3.4.6_2.10-19.1.x86_64
> oyranos-monitor-nvidia-0.4.0-3.1.2.x86_64
> x11-video-nvidia-96.43.20-20.1.x86_64
>
>
according to nvidia.com the correct driver for Geforce 8400GS is 304.51
not the legacy driver 96.43 which is for very very old cards.
uninstall nvidia-gfx-kmp-default-96.43.20_k3.4.6_2.10-19.1.x86_64 and
x11-video-nvidia-96.43.20-20.1.x86_64 and the install the equivalent
packages which have G02 in their name.

–
PC: oS 12.2 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.8.4 | GeForce GT 420
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.2 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.9.1 | HD 3000
eCAFE 800: oS 12.2 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | KDE 3.5.10

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Am 28.09.2012 01:20, schrieb Martin Helm:
> Am 28.09.2012 00:46, schrieb agunet74:
>>
>> result of
>>
>> rpm -qa | grep nvidia
>>
>>
>> nvidia-gfx-kmp-default-96.43.20_k3.4.6_2.10-19.1.x86_64
>> oyranos-monitor-nvidia-0.4.0-3.1.2.x86_64
>> x11-video-nvidia-96.43.20-20.1.x86_64
>>
>>
> according to nvidia.com the correct driver for Geforce 8400GS is 304.51
> not the legacy driver 96.43 which is for very very old cards.
> uninstall nvidia-gfx-kmp-default-96.43.20_k3.4.6_2.10-19.1.x86_64 and
> x11-video-nvidia-96.43.20-20.1.x86_64 and the install the equivalent
> packages which have G02 in their name.
>
To be precise the following


nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-304.43_k3.4.6_2.10-19.1.x86_64
nvidia-computeG02-304.43-20.1.x86_64
x11-video-nvidiaG02-304.43-20.1.x86_64

–
PC: oS 12.2 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.8.4 | GeForce GT 420
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.2 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.9.1 | HD 3000
eCAFE 800: oS 12.2 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | KDE 3.5.10

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I recommend you follow Martin_Helm’s advice.

I note this from the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file:


    16.151] (II) FBDEV(0): FBIOBLANK: Invalid argument (Screen blanking not supported by vesafb of Linux Kernel)
    16.151] (==) FBDEV(0): Backing store disabled
    16.155] (==) FBDEV(0): DPMS enabled
    16.155] (==) RandR enabled

which together with other lines make it pretty clear that your openSUSE install is using the basic/primative FBDEV graphic driver and not the superior nouveau graphic driver nor the superior proprietary nvidia driver.

I confess the ‘lscpi’ output of:


01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a2)

is a bit puzzling too me. I did not think a GeForce 8400GS was a GT218 variant. Still, from the little that I know, Martin_Helm has correctly identified that you have the wrong driver installed.

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Now I can see with more resolution (1366 x 768), but I notice the video too slow.

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I restart my computer and now my video seems ok, (unless until now hehe)

thanks 4 all