I am VERY new to the OpenSUSE community, so forgive me if this post isn’t formatted according to the norm here on the forums. That said, here’s my situation. I have a rig with integrated i5 graphics and a discrete Nvidia GTX 970 card. When I configure my BIOS to run strictly using the integrated i5, kdm (my assigned display manager) loads correctly, in both recovery and normal boot states.
Originally I had nouveau installed for the Nvidia, and it worked fine, but it doesn’t allow to me get the most out of my card on Linux. I switched over to the newest proprietary Nvidia driver from their website, 64 bit. This driver installed alright, after I played around with getting the X-Server to terminate to install the driver from the text-only interface. Driver installed fine.
That said, I have my kdm set to autologin, and OpenSUSE does indeed boot to the desktop. However, as soon as I log out, or turn off autologin, I’m left with the OpenSUSE wallpaper and a non-themed mouse cursor. Nothing more, nothing less. This suggests that kdm isn’t starting, which I think is because xorg isn’t starting right either.
I’ve visited multiple posts and tried a number of fixes, but all existing forum fixes seem very specific to the users’ issues. If you need logs, screenshots, etc. I’ll supply them, but I don’t know where to start. I really want OpenSUSE running right, because the whole point of the install was to run a distro to learn more about underlying Linux features, so I don’t need to consult a forum for troubleshooting in the future.
OpenSUSE 13.2. Fresh install. Recovery mode always works, no matter if I’m running discrete GTX 970 or i5 integrated, regardless of driver. Have tried different display managers (gdm and lightdm) but to no avail.
Thanks ahead of time!
Recovery mode runs with primative drivers only neither nouveau nor NVIDIA drivers are used so does not mater if they are installed or not
Try first to uninsrtall the driver you got from NVIDIA site. then add the NVIDIA repo and install the GO4 flavor of the NVIDIA drivers and be sure that the right flavor of the kernel is made. As far as I know the one click still does not work for the cutting edge cards and installing the GO4 based driver
Also try disabling the auto login since that will give you more information instead of guessing
Today is the day for the perfect storm for people intalling the nvidia driver “the hard way”. If you didn’t notice there was an update of the package xorg-x11-server today, which means all installs “the hard way” have broken OpenGL support.
So reinstall the driver “the hard way” or better switch to install it from the repo added in Yast.
Okay, so I completely re-installed OpenSUSE, and I installed the OpenSUSE 13.2 G04 driver from the repository (and all the packages that come with it) for the GTX 970. I also disabled autologin. So upon boot I end up at the same screen I had been getting, a wallpaper and a non-Oxygen mouse (that I can move). I can enter a command line with Ctrl + Alt + F2, but the command line is ridiculously blurry, though functional. I have installed Nvidia’s website driver and the 1-click install driver on the previous installation, and now on this installation I install the G04 driver. But they all lead to the same result. A failure of kdm and the x-server. This still does not occur with the i5 integrated driver boot. I am so confused as to how to proceed. Advice?
When you install the NVIDIA did you turn off the Intel GPU in the BIOS???
Things can get confused if you have both active
Yes I did. I’ve now tried driver installations with disabling it and not disabling it. Same end result either way. Now autologin doesn’t even seem to work. I’m effectively locked out of the OS (with the exception of recovery mode).