Issue after fresh install of openSUSE 13.1

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#1

Hello everybody! Yesterday, I installed openSUSE and I’m loving it so far, there’s just one small issue I’m struggling with at the moment and I’m not really sure what to do. I encountered the issue twice yesterday. The first time, I was just browsing the internet and then my mouse and entire GUI froze. I went to a TTY and ran top to see what the heck was going on – it appeared as though xorg was using 100% CPU. So, I restarted hoping it was just a glitch. However, later on I experienced something similar. The entire GUI crashed including xorg this time. I had a look in the /var/log/messages file and I found this line:


2014-04-07T01:04:19.063873-04:00 simon-pc kernel:  3318.558237] nouveau E     DRM] GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

Anybody know what’s going on here? Any help would be much appreciated!

I’m using an nVidia Geforce GTX 650 TI Boost.

Thanks,
Simon

#2

Try to install the proprietary nvidia driver.

See here, you need the first one, i.e. labelled “For GeForce 8 and later”:
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers

#3

Hey there, thanks for the help! Unfortunately I’m having problems connecting to the site at the moment. Anyone else experiencing this?
Thanks

#4

Well, I used archive.org to view the website, managed to get the repository installed and the nvidia drivers installed. It’s going good so far so we’ll see how this works.
Thanks!