on my machine I replaced hard disk and installed 12.1 rc2, everything went ok.
now I put back the original hard disk with my 11.4 tumbleweed and upgraded to 12.1, I have not only no nvidia graphics but no nouveau too, the only way to have a graphic desktop is to login in safe mode in LXDE, KDE and GNOME don’t work.
screen is low resolution, something 800x600, but works.
well the question is: how can I get the nouveau with correct resolution as the fresh installation??
On 11/13/2011 08:46 AM, pier andreit wrote:
>
> on my machine I replaced hard disk and installed 12.1 rc2, everything
> went ok.
> now I put back the original hard disk with my 11.4 tumbleweed and
> upgraded to 12.1, I have not only no nvidia graphics but no nouveau too,
> the only way to have a graphic desktop is to login in safe mode in LXDE,
> KDE and GNOME don’t work.
> screen is low resolution, something 800x600, but works.
> well the question is: how can I get the nouveau with correct resolution
> as the fresh installation??
Most likely, /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf is specifying a driver other
than nouveau. If you copy all files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ from the fresh
install to the updated one, it should work.
It works better but not well, I copyed X11 fromn the working one to the other, the result is that a graphic desktop can be got with no safe mode login, but anyway low resolution and kde and gnome dont work, I noted that my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf in both is fully commented.
#Section “Device”
Identifier “Default Device”
#Driver “radeon”
## Required magic for radeon/radeonhd drivers; output name
## (here: “DVI-0”) can be figured out via ‘xrandr -q’
#Option “monitor-DVI-0” “Default Monitor”
#EndSection
It’s bit “shot in a dark”, check if nouveau is blacklisted. Nvidia closed source driver needs nouveau blacklisted, so if you have it install(on 11.4), not sure that uninstallation will unblacklist nouveau. Also make sure you do not pass nomodeset as kernel parameter. Eventually you could boot in single user mode and try to load nouveau manually, it may print some information.
12.1 is the first time nouveau work on my desktop, but I think it’s still considered experimental, so not garanties that all GPUs will work.
Hope it will work for you at the end.
kvazary, you are correct. In my “losses” of nouveau, I found that it can get blacklisted in two places. One in the:
/etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf and the other in /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf
Take care,
Chuck
I found here, /etc/modprobe.d/:
50-nvidia.conf , there isn’t nouveau but I commented
50-blacklist.conf was commented
nvidia.conf was uncommented, I commented it
nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf was commented
but in how many cazzo of places is blacklisted this poor nouveau???
I will see this too, I think it should be found an easy mode to switch between nvidia and nouveau drivers:-))
for this I’m sure, it worked on the same
machine, the only difference is the hard disk
later I will try and report the results :-))
/etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf and the other in /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf
In case you’re still having a problem…
I just had exactly the same issue when I upgraded to the general release, and for me, the problem turned out to be in my xorg.conf. Nvidia had dropped it’s own version in there, which only loads the nvidia driver. Opening my xorg and replacing “nvidia” with “nouveau” fixed it right up.
You can tell if that’s your problem by reading through /var/log/Xorg.0.log and looking for a line that says it failed to load the nvidia driver. Hope that helps.