Opensuse 12.3, KDE 4.10. New install
Nvidia Geforce 7050
Windows 7 boots ok,
Opensuse stops with the black screen and the green vine and lizard on the right.
If I poke escape at the menu I get a lot of command logging and it stops at
[OK] Reached Target Graphical Interface.
I opened a terminal window and logged in and have no clue what to do now.
I forgot to add that the kernal is 3.7.10-1.1
Would it help if I updated this ?
Is this a simple, fault free process that I could run from the command line ?
I did run yast from the command line just to look and see what it would show or do.
How did you open a terminal window. I mean, I read your problem as that you do not get a login possibility on the screen and thus you can not log in into the GUI. Then how can you open any window?
After it stopped logging at the line I showed above, I pressed ctl-alt-F1 as I had been instructed in my other thread.
Supposedly we can resolve the graphics problem from here, I hope so.
More to the issue.
I rebooted and took the main menu option of
Advanced which gave me 4 options
I tried option 2 and it stopped again at [OK] Reached Targeted Graphical Interface.
keep the faith
On 2013-08-15, hextejas <hextejas@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> After it stopped logging at the line I showed above, I pressed
> ctl-alt-F1 as I had been instructed in my other thread.
> Supposedly we can resolve the graphics problem from here, I hope so.
This is almost certainly correct. Did you install the NVIDIA propietary driver for this installion?
OK, it is very fine and correct to do so. But that is the (logical) console, not a terminal window.
Thus my confusion.
Fly, I don’t know how to do that.
I am now poking around the internet reading anything associated to that Graphical message it stops at.
Running yast from the command line shows that for software repositories:
99 (default) enabled nvidia ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/12.3
now what to do to say “use it properly” 
On 2013-08-15, hextejas <hextejas@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> Fly, I don’t know how to do that.
Hmmm, it was explained to you in a previous thread. So the answer is that we don’t really know. It may not be the
graphics card. Which sound card do you have?
> I am now poking around the internet reading anything associated to
> that Graphical message it stops at.
I strongly suspect you will save a lot of time by installing openSUSE 12.3 from the full DVD (rather than the LiveCD).
The installation only takes 45 minutes, and that’s considerably less than the time you’ve spent trying to solve this
problem.
On 08/15/2013 04:56 PM, hextejas wrote:
> I am now poking around the internet reading anything
recommendation, when looking for help for openSUSE do your first
looking inside the openSUSE universe…the reason is that you can
truckloads of really good advice which is only applicable to (say)
Fedora or Debian or Arch or some other single distro…
i am not saying that you can’t find info which is perfect for all
distros…but the fact is that the commonality among the various
distros seems (that is an opinion) to be decreasing with time…
well, let me mention that there is tons of advice for openSUSE 12.1
which is totally worthless for 12.3, so imagine how useful might be a
prescription typed for Mandrake 8.1 in 2001!!
so, turn Google into your best friend to search the openSUSE universe
by using their “site specifier” switch…
like to check out installing the NVIDIA proprietary driver on your
12.3 you might find useful a search string like:
site:forums.opensuse.org NVIDIA proprietary driver “12.3”
and get over 7,000 hits just in these forums via
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aforums.opensuse.org+NVIDIA+proprietary+driver+“12.3”
or, if you wanna just check the Wiki all you have to do is change the
site specifier, like:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aen.opensuse.org+NVIDIA+proprietary+driver+“12.3”
or, check the docs the same way:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Adoc.opensuse.org+NVIDIA+proprietary+driver+“12.3”
how about the mail list, wanna check them, just change the site
specifier again:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alists.opensuse.org+NVIDIA+proprietary+driver+“12.3”
if you wanna check everything in opensuse.org (forums, docs, lists)
use site%3Aopensuse.org
and, there is one other place with usually good info:
site:opensuse-community.org
happy hunting…but, i suggest you do it on this reservation, first.
(even here you have to be careful to make sure you know what version
is being fixed by the prescription being given…as well as you need
to make a best guess at the likelihood the advice giver knoweth of
which s/he pontificates…there are (unfortunately) a few
“distro-hoppers” who pop in from another distro and having run
openSUSE for a few hours start “helping” with info that is great for
their last, but not present, system…on the other hand, there are
some who pop in who are absolute experts here as well as the last XX
flavors they have run…)
ymmv
Remove the NVIDIA driver again:
sudo zypper rm x11-video-nvidiaG03 nvidia-computeG03 nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop
And, if you have an xorg.conf, remove that as well:
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Then your system hopefully will boot again. (it did before you installed the nvidia driver)
Just a quick suggestion - when you’re creating a new thread to describe a
problem, in the subject line, summarize the problem - your thread titles
have made it fairly difficult to determine if there’s something I can do
to help because the subject lines don’t describe the issue even generally.
Also, if this is a continuation of another thread (perhaps the “Ah well,
now it won’t boot” thread), then continuing the discussion there would be
better, since it keeps all the information in a single thread for easy
reference.
Thanks,
Jim
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openSUSE Forums Administrator
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I fumbled around and did these and I at least got Opensuse to boot up to my desktop.
Additionally, I got some music played so something is right.
Found the correct driver at nvidia site and down loaded it to a thumbdrive on a different machine.
Voila, it updated though I got a warning that suggests I do something.
Frankly I am reluctant to touch anything. So do you think it is necessary to do this ?
Remove or rename a file
libnvidia-opencl.so.319.2 and create a symbolic link by running
‘In -sf libnvidia-opencl.sb.304.88 /usr/lib64/libnvidia-opencl.so.1’
Huzzah
Which version have you downloaded now? In that sentence are both 319.2 and 304.88 mentioned.
If it is the 319.xx version I would advise NOT to install it, since that one caused your system to not boot the last time…
Try to install the G02 (304.88) driver from the repo:
sudo zypper in x11-video-nvidiaG02 nvidia-computeG02 nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop
If that doesn’t work either, remove it again and stay with the standard driver:
sudo zypper rm x11-video-nvidiaG02 nvidia-computeG02 nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop
Yes, it is the 304.88 version that is working.
Though I installed it via the terminal window, sudo,etc
Should I go back and do the zypper stuff you are mentioning ?
And I really appreciate your guidance re being specific about what I am looking for. I made that mistake a few times.
Frankly, it is encouraging to see others with the same problems.
As it stands now, and I am very afraid that I am going to jinx it, but it is working well with no more changes needed as I see.
Probably I will need to do more as it develops but for now I am happy.
I have even caught up with the work I missed during the downtime.
Tomorrow, no Windows !!! That’s my goal.
Ok Jim, I will keep this in mind and try and be more explicit.
Ok just to be sure that we are all on the same page. You installed a NVIDIA driver you got from the NVIDIA site. I assume you also installed the kernel source since the installer would not work with out that installed.
Now it is working right??
Since you installed manually and not via a RPM or yast or zypper you will have to reinstall manually if you have any kernel updates. That means after a kernel update and you reboot you will probably end back on the command line so know where your NVIDIAxxx.run files is so you can run it then reboot again.
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I don’t know anything about whether or not I installed the kernel source.
I downloaded the Nvidia file, chmod to make it executable (at least I think that’s what I did), and then executed it.
And yes it is now working. It remains to be seen if it continues to work after I turn it off and back on tomorrow.
That is interesting and I need to remain aware of any future updates to the kernel.
If I were to do the zypper updates as suggested above, would that bring things back into sync ?
If you install via the repos then the driver auto reinstalls with a kernel update. If you do it manually you have to continue to reinstall manually with a kernel update.
You had to have installed the kernel source. If you did not then you are not running the NVIIDA driver since the install would fail. You need to pay attention so all output, even if you don’t understand it all it will give you clues about what is happening.
You can check what driver is running from the GUI by clicking the Kinfocenter icon and looking in the video section