GNOME 3 won't paint after installation from Leap 42.1 DVD

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I am a new openSUSE user trying to install Leap 42.1 with GNOME 3 on a 250GB SSD with an Intel Core i5-6600K CPU, an ASUS H170M-PLUS motherboard, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970. However, when I boot up using Grub2, the operating system is fine but GNOME won’t paint properly. It seems to be running because when I hit the Super key, the screen dims (I can only tell by looking at the green lightbulb), but the top bar, dash, workspaces and everything else are all invisible.

I have read on this and other forums that GNOME and NVIDIA drivers do not always play nicely together, but this is a clean install on a newly reformatted disk using an openSUSE DVD which I sha256sum checked, so there can’t be an NVIDIA driver on the machine. I am using default installation settings and selecting GNOME 3 as part of the installation. To verify that my problem isn’t with openSUSE itself, I also tried installing it from the same DVD with Xfce and that worked fine.

Not sure what to try next.

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Hi
I’m assuming since it’s a skylake CPU it’s got the intel GPU as well?

If you switch to a VT (eg press ctrl+alt+F!) and login, what does the output from the following command show? Or use XFCE and open a terminal to run the command.


/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -A3 VGA
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Thanks for your reply. This is the output I get:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Skylake Integrated Graphics [8086:1912] (rev 06)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:8694]
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] [10de:13c2] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device [1458:3679]
Kernel driver in use: nouveau
Kernel modules: nouveau

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Hi
So in the BIOS is there an option to disable the intel graphics?

If not the AFAIK, you need to look at the bumblebee (search the forum for related threads) project for using both cards.

See how that goes, else there are a few forum folks how are more up to play on the graphics side of things, hopefully they will chime in :wink:

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Hi
Just spotted this thread, see the post (#46) from user OrsoBruno;
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/520065-Discussion-thread-for-42-2-Beta2?p=2794471#post2794471

Whilst 42.2 centric it’s similar hardware… Perhaps you might want to try 42.2 Beta?