I just installed OpenSUSE 12.1 and updated it to Gnome 3.4, which works pefectly,
Unitll i installed Nvidia drivers from Nvidia site , after starting i found that nvidia drivers are not able to start clutter and shut the GUI
Clutter-CRITICAL **: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to select the newly created GLX context Window manager error: Unable to initialize Clutter.
Hi, welcome here.
Which driver version did you install, how did you install it?
And, which repos do you use, how did you install GNOME 3.4? Please output of
zypper lr -d
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/STABLE:/3.4/openSUSE_12.1/
Gave high preference to get this package installed
It fine with Normal installation with nouveau but after updating with the below nvidia drivers
ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/12.1/
Installed 295 version of nvidia with some other packages
is there any solution to the above problem
Are you saying you don’t have any other repos than the GNOME one? That’s not OK. You should at least have OSS, Non-OSS, and Update. If you cut out a piece, please don’t. To help you out we need complete and accurate information, otherwise we have no direction to search for solutions.
The issue is probably in the NVIDIA driver, more issues have been reported. Also on other distros using this NVIDIA driver version. A solution could be to download and install the NVIDIA driver in a different version. The install procedure is often called “the hard way”, but actually is not hard at all. Please post output of
uname -a
and I’ll post a short list of commands to install a different NVIDIA driver.
Linux linux-j9rp 3.1.0-1.2-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 3 14:45:45 UTC 2011 (187dde0) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
295.40 is the problem (most likely). You should either downgrade or upgrade the driver (= install a newer version “the hard way”).
See this thread: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/hardware/474525-nvidia-driver-295-40-15-1-crashes-my-system.html
Should i use this way to install nvidia Drivers http://forums.opensuse.org/content/121-lnvhw-load-nvidia-driver-hard-way-runlevel-3-version-1-45.html
Here’s a short instruction to install the latest NVIDIA driver pack, that works flawlessly on my laptop, server and a couple of other machines with NVIDIA’s.
Preparations:
Yast - Software - Software Management, pick Pattern view.
Check the Linux Kernel Development pattern for install
Perforim the install
Yast - System - /etc/sysconfigeditor
Search for “KMS_IN_INITRD”, Go to the item found, and set it’s value to “yes”.
Open a terminal window, copy and paste command below, and execute it, it will create a folder in your homedir and download the driver installer to it:
mkdir ~/NVIDIA
cd ~/NVIDIA
wget ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/302.11/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-302.11.run
Installing the driver:
cd ~/NVIDIA
su -c 'sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-302.11.run -q -a'
su -c reboot
After the “su -c” commands the system will ask you for the root password.
Please let know if this worked for you.
Knurpht wrote:
> wget
> ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/302.11/NVIDIA-Linux-
x86_64-302.11.run
You forgot to mention that this is a beta driver, but then again, aren’t
they all? 
–
Chris Maaskant.
To me they are. But I should have mentioned.
Yeah U r correct, the driver version i installed has some issues, when i choose a updated version , got the drivers manually and installed its working fine.
Thanks for the Help
Looking forward to install the 302.11 Beta drivers
Why would you? You have a working situation now.
Indeed, in most cases, there is no need to update the nvidia driver if the one you have is working fine. Many people here got problems because they (automatically) upgraded to version 295.40 (which is clearly unusable with some models of nvidia under Gnome 3 ).
I am not a big Fan of Nvidia , but Vdapu technology pushes me to get into nvidia drivers.
OpenSource Should come with an alternative.