Good afternoon all,
@Fraser Bell:
I have been using the VGA port on the card and, for some years, the card has worked well with the Nouveau driver, including error free performance with the Cube Desktop. Thanks for the info though, much appreciated.
@robin_listas:
I haven’t used tab completion much so I found your reply interesting. Perhaps I should invest more time exploring that functionality. Thanks for your reply, again much appreciated.
@wolfi323:
Our last correspondence was on Sunday 15th June. I took your advice and turned off the Blur desktop effect. In Desktop Effects->Advanced I set “Composite Type” to “OpenGL 1.2” and the one below it (Qt Graphics System, if I remember correctly) to “Raster”. (I had to use my Fedora 20 HDD to generate this posting. Curiously, it has “Compositing type” set to OpenGL 2.0 and “Qt graphics sytem” to “Raster” and hardly ever locks up.)
The following day, there wasn’t a single desktop lock up and so it seemed that your suggestion had cured the problem. Sadly, from Tuesday onwards the desktop reverted to locking up.
On Wednesday I actioned your other suggestion and installed the NVidia driver. Immediately prior to doing that I followed the instructions listed in a previous “NVIDIA Accelerated Linux Driver Set README and Installation Guide”. (Years ago, before the Nouveau driver appeared, I had installed the NVidia driver several times with the driver not giving any problems. After Nouveau appeared I decided to give it a try and had been happy with it, untill this problem arose.) These instructions amounted to the following.
- Log in as root.
- cp /etc/inittab /etc/inittab.original, save original run level.
- Edit inittab, changing “id:5:initdefautl:” to “id:3:initdefautl:”
- Reboot the system into single user mode, no X server running.
- Run the installer, “sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7664-pkg#.run”
- cp /etc/inittab.original /etc/inittab, recover original run level.
- Reboot system to GUI.
On this occassion, having downloaded and saved the NVidia driver, I carried out steps 1-4 listed above. For some reason, the system kept booting to the desktop. So, as I was “locked out” of booting to the CLI, I decided to install the NVidia driver using the desktop, the link you provided, and the one-click install process using the first yellow button, above which was the label “For GeForce FX cards
(5xxx)”. This went smoothly and installed successfully.
On rebooting, the system now(!!) boots to runlevel 3, the CLI. I then carried out steps 6 & 7 listed above and rebooted. The system now will only(!!) boot to the CLI, even though /etc/inittab now contains “id:5:initdefautl:”. Further, on issuing startx, the system doesn’t
recognise this command and displays the following.
suse@linux-luwl.~>startx
hostname: Name or service not known
xauth: file /home/suse/.serverauth.968 does not exist
(EE)
fatal server error:
(EE) Cannot move old log file “/var/log/Xorg.0.log” to “/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old”
(EE)
(EE)
Please consult the The X.org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
(EE)
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: server error
xinit failed. /usr/bin/Xorg is not setuid, maybe that’s the reason?
If so either use a display manager (strongly recommended) or adjust /etc/permissions.local
suse@linux-luwl.~>
I have payed a quick visit to wiki.x.org which appears to have some help available. However, before plumbing those depths(!!), I was
wondering if you might be able offer a more limited suggestion that nonetheless might work. Afterall, your suggestion about switching
off the Blur effect did work, albeit for only a short while.
Thanks again for all the help that you have given so far with this and for any help you may be able to give with this next problem.
Stuart