So I’m a long way out of practice here (I used to mess with gentoo 20 years ago), I’m fairly sure this is reversible. but here is my issue.
I logged into the gnome desktop, opened up yast to get the nvidia drivers and clicked them to install, they seemed to install but Didn’t seem to change anything, so i figured a reboot was in order.
After the reboot I noticed some nvidia kernel errors then the login screen appeared. Now when I put the password in to login, the screen just “blinks” and I get no error, it just goes back to waiting for me to put my password in again…
I vaguely remember from my old days messing with linux there is a way you can get the shell up or get “behind” the login prompt to sign in there and see change system settings there… does anyone know what I’m babbling about?
I clicked E at the boot loader and added in the nvidia_drm.modeset=1 to the end of the “linux” line, then used ctrl x to boot it.
this did not seem to change anything.
how can I do this If I cant get past the login screen?
After the reboot I noticed some nvidia kernel errors then the login screen appeared. Now when I put the password in to login, the screen just “blinks” and I get no error, it just goes back to waiting for me to put my password in again…
press ctrl+alt+F1 to get to a console login, ctrl+alt+F2 to get to the login screen.
thank you for this! This is what I was remembering from years ago.
Ok I got to the terminal and logged in there ok, I then run “sudo yast” and got a very unfamiliar blue screen interface.
This is cool, never seen it before but its a neat idea!
I search for wayland and xwayland and they both showed up with a small “i” next to them which I take as “installed” ?
I re-installed by toggling to a “>” then ctrl alt F7 to get back to the login screen but I still cant get in and no other option shows up in the settings button in the bottom right hand corner.
Another idea is:
Use the advance option before booting tumbleweed.
If you click that find the recovery mood and see if it will give you a GUI.
The GUI will be on a low resolution.
From there use yast2 to try installing your correct driver.
