Booted up my pc today, loading screen came on fine, got past bootloader and just before the main login section (with the bar going across… I have automatic login) the screen goes black, and after a while the TV it’s connected to says no signal!
Any ideas? If I hit ctrl+alt+backspace I can get to a terminal.
Many thanks
Ross
Video card and driver?
Nvidia drivers, g04.
Many thanks
Ross
Try force reinstalling
How do I go about doing that?
Cheers
Yast software management
Select update unconditional
It’s a bit difficult opening yast with no screen…!
On 15/06/16 09:16, thestig wrote:
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There’s probably a “zypper in -f” variant that will do the job. I don’t
use zypper enough to be specific.
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PeeGee
MSI m/b 890A-G43, AMD FX6300, 8GB, openSUSE 13.2/13.1 KDE x86_64 dual
boot + Win7 Premium 64bit in VBox
MSI m/b 870-C45, AMD Athlon II X3 445, 8GB, openSUSE 13.2 KDE
x86_64/Win7 Premium 64bit dual boot
Boot up in text mode (runlevel 3) as explained here
then launch yast ncurses (text) interface
http://opensuse-guide.org/yast.php
Any ideas? If I hit ctrl+alt+backspace I can get to a terminal.
Actually, since you can get to a shell, just do…
then launch yast ncurses (text) interface
9. Administrator Settings (YaST) - Introduction to the YaST Setup Tool
I managed to get into yast, went into online update, did an update (only WiFi stuff) then went into software management, searched. Nvidia and for all of the packages I had installed I hit enter so the > symbol came up, indicating to update, and ran that.
Is that what you meant?
I’ve rebooted but still no such luck. I think I recall setting up update unconditionally in yast anyway a while ago as I had problems with graphics drivers when I first installed Leap.
Any further advice greatly appreciated.
Ross
Well, are you sure the nvidia drivers are still in use? Which method did you use to install them initially? Examine /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see what is going on. If necessary you can upload it to http://paste.opensuse.org/ and post the link to it here for others to review and advise further.
I’m not sure how to examine that file, and then post the output, without being able to get to a graphical interface.
Many thanks
See here:
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/518066-I-can-t-login-into-graphic-mode?p=2780683#post2780683Though the Xorg.0.log should normally be in /var/log/ (unless you use gdm).
So install susepaste and then run this and post the link you get:
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | susepaste -t "Xorg.log" -n "username" -e "0"
Hi wolfi,
I’ll do that later when I get home, thanks. The screen is black, literally NOTHING. After a while my TV says no input. Pressing ctrl+alt+backspace twice brings up the terminal, not a login screen.
Do you think it’s worth reinstalling, but leaving my /home in tact?
Cheers
Right, just got back…
Pasted as http://susepaste.org/32666155
Http://paste.opensuse.org/32666155
Cheers
Hmmm, says page cannot be found. Will try again in case I copied the number wrong
Pasted as http://susepaste.org/57655972
Http://paste.opensuse.org/57655972
Ok, this worked.
I see nothing wrong in there though.
nvidia is not installed any more, you are using nouveau.
It seems to detect the monitor (via HDMI), and there’s no error either, it seems to shut down normally at the end.
Somebody mentioned yesterday that he had to recreate the initrd after removing the nvidia driver to get nouveau to work.
So try running mkinitrd and reboot.
If the nouveau kernel module is not in the initrd this can cause problems like a black screen later on.
Hm. You should get back to the login screen.
If not, then it seems the display manager is crashing or something like this.
If the above (mkinitrd) doesn’t help, try to switch to xdm as a test by setting DISPLAYMANAGER=“xdm” in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager (either with a text editor or with YaST->System->/etc/sysconfig Editor).
This is a very basic login screen, but it would be interesting to know whether this one works.
And/or try to run “startx” in text mode (as root). Does this give you a graphical interface?
Do you think it’s worth reinstalling, but leaving my /home in tact?
Well, that should help in any case (unless it is a hardware problem of course) I suppose.
Personally I would keep that as last resort though.
Trying mkinitrd didn’t work. I didn’t try the middle method but by trying startx it does indeed load a basic graphical interface.
What could this mean? Is it a problem with KDE or plasma? Should I reinstall nvidia as it seems the problem is not because of that?
Thanks!
Loading yast sysconfig editor… I can’t see to access that file/search for it?!