msi ge70 nvidia gt750m lots of problem with opensuse12.3

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#1

dear all,
sorry for beginner questions, but i feel lost!
i try my best by reading a lot of thread here, still i can’t fix the screen brightness, the wireless, the video…
1- when i try to run the soft paraview i got this message:

vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x221d230): Could not find a decent visual

Xlib: extension “GLX” missing on display “:0”.
Xlib: extension “GLX” missing on display “:0”.
Xlib: extension “GLX” missing on display “:0”.

before installing nivida paraview was running perfectly well!

ls -la /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
give

total 48
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 11 10:22 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Aug 8 11:44 …
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 61 Mar 2 08:51 05-glamor.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1099 Jul 15 23:25 10-evdev.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 3640 Jan 28 2013 11-mouse.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 529 Jul 1 2011 50-device.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 527 Jul 1 2011 50-monitor.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 491 Jul 1 2011 50-screen.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 1918 Feb 5 2013 50-synaptics.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 115 Jan 28 2013 50-vmmouse.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 835 Jan 28 2013 50-wacom.conf
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 144 Aug 8 12:10 90-keytable.conf

if i do

linux-dgf5:/home/laurent # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Haswell DRAM Controller (rev 06)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Haswell PCI Express x16 Controller (rev 06)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Haswell HD Audio Controller (rev 06)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Point USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Point MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Lynx Point High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Lynx Point PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev d4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Lynx Point PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev d4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Lynx Point PCI Express Root Port #4 (rev d4)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Lynx Point PCI Express Root Port #6 (rev d4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Lynx Point LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Lynx Point 4-port SATA Controller 1 [IDE mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Lynx Point SMBus Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Lynx Point 2-port SATA Controller 2 [IDE mode] (rev 04)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0fe4 (rev a1)
03:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 5227 (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Device e091 (rev 13)
05:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8723

2-the brightness is a desaster for my eyes at night!
i have xbacklight install but nothing that i read here run…
any help would be very wellcome, i thanks you be advance
best regards LL
for the wireless and the video camera, the is no urgency…

#2

Re. the NVIDIA: you have an Optimus config, where there’s an Intel (see) graphics card + an NVIDIA. A hardware setup like that needs Bumblebee, see Smithfarm - the Brain: openSUSE 12.3: How to install ‘bumblebee’ for NVIDIA Optimus VGA
Re. the screen brightness, is it the keys that don’t work, or can’t you change anything through the desktop settings?

#3

hi,
thanks you for answering, by chance i can still write to you with a other computer, because i may break something on the msi one…
i did as it said;
And make sure to remove all packages and repositories relating to any previous installation of proprietary NVidia driver, Bumblebee, etc.
now went it start there is no more kde, just a
Welcome to opensuse 12.3 ‘dartmouth’ kernek 3.7.10.1.16 destop tty1
linux-dgf5 login;_
like in a terminal…
before that i get a error install fail, for the command

zypper in dkms-nvidia

what can i do.??? all this is very stressful!!!
to answer the brightness wasn t changing by any of kde setting, even power managerment, or short cut setting, or echo 9 backlight etc thinks… i try a lot… lo learn…

#4

did i make something wrong.?
i just don t understand why in 2013 it is so complicate to make thinks running ! the installation of nvidia fail, i went back to VGA and get kde back. then i try the first thing to do on this page;
SDB:Configuring graphics cards - openSUSE
and i get this message, that some partition in the system on sda6 are mounted by kernel-device name. this is not reliable for the update etc start the old system and change the mount by method…
my wife just make a nervous break done because i spent all Saturday just the try to by able to adjust the brightness on a new computer!!!
cheers LL

#5

Dear all,
sorry to have been a little pessimist, lets be practical and persistent
so
Laptop msi ge70
dual boot windows /opensuse 12.3 kde
video carte nvidia geforce gt750m

gpu intel(r) hd graphics 4600
I install bumblebee following Smithfarm - the Brain: openSUSE 12.3: How to install ‘bumblebee’ for NVIDIA Optimus VGA
but point 12 ok
13 I had:

laurent@linux-dgf5:~> primusrun glxspheres
glxspheres: libglfork.cpp:244: PrimusInfo::PrimusInfo(): Assertion `ncfg’ failed.
Aborted

but if I do

laurent@linux-dgf5:~> optirun glxspheres
Polygons in scene: 62464
Visual ID of window: 0x21
Context is Direct
OpenGL Renderer: GeForce GT 750M/PCIe/SSE2
104.273457 frames/sec - 116.369178 Mpixels/sec
104.361036 frames/sec - 116.466916 Mpixels/sec
105.177407 frames/sec - 117.377986 Mpixels/sec
96.488737 frames/sec - 107.681431 Mpixels/sec
89.452579 frames/sec - 99.829078 Mpixels/sec

it look like I got optimus and not primus… do i need to do point 15 to 20 ?

laurent@linux-dgf5:~> optirun --status
Bumblebee status: Ready (3.2.1). X inactive. Discrete video card is off.

The problem is that paraview program need glx
laurent@linux-dgf5:~> paraview
ERROR: In /home/sergio/rpmbuild/BUILD/ParaView-3.12.0/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, line 404
vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x32858a0): Could not find a decent visual
ERROR: In /home/sergio/rpmbuild/BUILD/ParaView-3.12.0/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, line 609
*vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x32858a0): GLX not found. Aborting.

*thanks you for helping LL

#6

Try reinstalling the package xorg-x11-server.

#7

hi,
thanks a lot for helping a beginner!
i tried to upload xorg-x11-server; doesn’t change the problem. shall i uninstall and reinstall, even if there is warning message from Yast when you uninstall…???-(break dependency etc…)
thanks again LL

#8

I don’t fully understand what you mean with “upload”, but just open up Yast software management, search for the package, the checkbox should have an “X” in it click on it once and that will change to a green checkmark, then click Accept. There should be no dependency warnings about that, it’s just ment to recover any files that have been deleted or overwritten by some other measures you’ve taken. Glx support for the integrated Intel chip is still needed for bumblebee to work, xorg-x11-server provides that support.

#9

oh, sorry for being unclear! i should have tell you that i already have the green check-mark in Yast !
here is may be the mistake i should have uninstall it before doing bumblebee installation?
thanks for your help and advices

#10

This suggests to me that you have pending updates, it’s very important, mandatory I should say, that your system is fully up to date before you install software like bumblebee. So fire up a terminal, su to root and run zypper up, that might be all you need to do.

#11

i just did what you say, i reinstall paraview from openFoam web site
SuSE RPM Pack Installation
openFoam run find but unfortunatlly not paraview, i still have this error message;

laurent@linux-dgf5:~/OpenFOAM/laurent-2.2.1/run/tutorials/incompressible/icoFoam/cavity> paraFoam
created temporary ‘cavity.OpenFOAM’
ERROR: In /home/sergio/rpmbuild/BUILD/ParaView-3.12.0/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, line 404
vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x2561240): Could not find a decent visual
ERROR: In /home/sergio/rpmbuild/BUILD/ParaView-3.12.0/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, line 404
vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x2561240): Could not find a decent visual
ERROR: In /home/sergio/rpmbuild/BUILD/ParaView-3.12.0/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, line 609
vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x2561240): GLX not found. Aborting.

…
i really don t know what to do, thanks very much for help. LL

#12

hi hank_se
what a good surprise after reboot to see that is finally working find!!!
you were right! thanks you so much, now i can continue exploring this soft openfoam!
thanks again LL

#13

Good to hear. I believe this software OpenFoam can use CUDA for computations, there are som missing symlinks in the dkms-nvidia install, you can create them as described in my last two posts here:
https://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/hardware/484188-setup-bumblebee-primus-opensuse-12-3-a-19.html#post2588472
How to use this is however beyond my knowledge.

#14

Dear specialists,
i just make a stupid on-line update with Yast, it ask for reboot, and then kde start and disappear living me just with a classic login in a terminal… (i had install the nvidia card GT750M with bumblebee smithfarm site and keep the repository of graphic, may be that where the problem come from) i don’t know what to do???
also, my wire internet card, the webcam, the SD connection for digital picture card, does not work, the brightness is impossible to set!
should i update with a dvd to 13.1 ???
can a update make the system running better???
thanks for helping Laurent

#15

Can’t you remember what update caused this?

Maybe there was a kernel update recently which could break the nvidia driver?
Try to boot the older kernel in “Advanced Options” in the boot menu. Does that help?

Does “Recovery Mode” work? (same place)

OTOH, your other issues sound like they are permissions related. A permission problem could of course also prevent the graphics driver to work, and could cause KDE to crash on login.

Does KDE work now (except of those other issues you mention)? This is not quite clear to me after reading your post.

An upgrade to 13.1 might or might not help, depending on what’s the problem. So I wouldn’t recommend it unconditionally.

#16

i just clic on ‘review’ the bottom messager of opensuse telling my there is 9 update , then one of them was X’something’ may be Xorg or…

yes indeed there was a kernel update, because it come from ..24.x to ..24.y (with my bad memory…)
i did try to boot from a older kernel ..16.* and in recovery mode, but same bad cycle append, kde start, i see the mousse 1s then crash… then > login:

unfortunaly kde still not working, i never heard anything about permissions
sorry for being unclear, i also add those massages, may help to understand:
“$DISPLAY is not set or cannot connect to the X server”
bumblebeed[9937]: there is no"bumblebee" group
and finally after all my trying
CPUi : core power limit notification (total events=1)
CPUi : Packege power limit notification (total events=1)

THANKS you VERY much for helping me and you advice!!!

#17

PS: This doesn’t have anything to do with your original problems any more, right?

In such a case it would be better to open a new thread for the new problem IMHO, as it might get confusing otherwise.

#18

Well, either the xorg update or the kernel-update can break the nvidia driver.
You say you installed bumblebee, so you should have installed the driver using RPM packages, right?
The normal nvidia driver RPMs from the nvidia repo do protect against such problems, but I’m not sure about the ones from the bumblebee repo.
So maybe just try to install it again. (right-click on the package in YaST and choose “Update Unconditionally”)

I have to admit though that I never used bumblebee myself, and also are not using it atm, so I have no either if there would maybe be a problem with the packages in that repo.

You might want to remove all packages you installed from that repo again to get a working system. (maybe use YaST->View->Repositories)

unfortunaly kde still not working, i never heard anything about permissions

OK, but how do you know then, that your “wire internet card, the webcam, the SD connection for digital picture card, does not work, the brightness is impossible to set!”? :wink:

sorry for being unclear, i also add those massages, may help to understand:
“$DISPLAY is not set or cannot connect to the X server”
bumblebeed[9937]: there is no"bumblebee" group
and finally after all my trying
CPUi : core power limit notification (total events=1)
CPUi : Packege power limit notification (total events=1)

The first message is likely because X is crashing on start.

I have no idea about that message about the “bumblebee” group though. (whether that’s needed or not). It should exist though after installing the bumblebee packages AFAICS).
Can you post /etc/groups?
Try to create it manually:

getent group bumblebee || groupadd -r bumblebee

You might have to add your user to that group then again.

And finally, maybe /var/log/Xorg.0.log or /var/log/kdm.log would provide a clue to the problem, so please post them.

#19

all that came from the online update of opensuse12.3 …any way to come back just before this update?
thanks Laurent

#20

Yes, find out which packages got updated (“Show History” in YaST’s “Extra” menu f.e.), then switch them back to the old versions (click on “Versions” in YaST).

But that won’t fix the missing “bumblebee” group.
And it won’t help if the update overwrote parts of the nvidia driver.