Kernel Update vs. Nvidia Binary Drivers

English Hardware
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Last night my system was updated to a kernel update. Everything seemed fine until I attempted to open VMWare Player and run Windows 8.1 to look at some C# stuff. I was informed that rendering was no longer direct and hardware acceleration was off. Looking at the NVIDIA Dock showed the driver wasn’t loaded. These were from the NVIDIA rpms so they should have loaded. I tried to reconfigure with nvidia-xconfig. This only killed X outright and left me at the command line for everything.

The fix: upgrade/reloaded the driver rpm files on yast CLI interface. Ran “init 3” and then “init 5” and all was well.

Am I the only person to see this?

Bob Taylor

bob@Osprey:~>

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No that kernel is borked. it has been removed and a new on should be available soon hopefully fixed

reinstalling the NVIDIA drivers has seemed to work for some

removing the new kernel or running from the previous (Advanced in Grub) will also work

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On 2015-04-15 02:16, gogalthorp wrote:
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> No that kernel is borked. it has been removed and a new on should be
> available soon hopefully fixed

I see a kernel update on 13.1 as well. Somebody knows if 13.1 was
affected, too?

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.

(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))

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Different kernel isn’t it?? May be worth some caution. And if you get bit you can always drop back to the previous kernel and remove the bad one

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Carlos E. R. wrote:

> I see a kernel update on 13.1 as well. Somebody knows if 13.1 was
> affected, too?
>

I’m running kernel 3.11.10-29 and the NVIDIA repo drivers (G03 340.76) with
no problems.

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Last Sunday, 26 after updating, I rebooted to a black screen with GRUB. I have no Idea what to do next.

Intel HD Graphics, NVIDIA OptimusTM Graphics Technology on Lenovo T430, dual booting OpenSUSE 13.2 and Winblow pro 7.
Any help would be really appreciated.,

grasshopper

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Ok Do you have bumblebee and NVIDIA-bumblebee installed?

Can you boot to recovery mode (in the advanced on grub boot menu)?

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On 2015-04-15 04:46, gogalthorp wrote:
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> Different kernel isn’t it?? May be worth some caution. And if you get
> bit you can always drop back to the previous kernel and remove the bad
> one

Thanks. I finally updated my machines, and there was no issue (one has
nvidia drivers).

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.

(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))