It seems that tumbleweed regularly updated the kernel from 4.11 to 4.12; when I ran zypper dup today, 4.12.7-1.2 packages were installed. I am running tumbleweed on a HP Elitebook 8440p with NVidia graphics, and I am using standard Nouveau drivers.
During reboot, the screen graphics corrpted and no login screen was recognisable. ctrl-alt-f1…f12 did not work. Neither did ctrl-alt-backspace help. I could not reach any mode where I could use the display.
I can only reboot by pressing the power button, and have to boot with kernel 4.11 which works fine.
Any help or ideas? If there are any logs I could provide I need help (which logs …).
Log in with the working kernel> go to Yast> look for> nvidia> update all installed packages unconditionally.
And even in the terminal> sudo mkinitrd
Restart
Try like this
I thought of doing this, too. But I am unsure because I read that nvidia’s proprietary drivers make problems under tumbleweed. How dod you install the driver - from repos? It seems you have downloaded it from nvidia. But then I wouldn’t know how to remove it if it does not work properly … (helpless …)
Using Nouveau with most recent kernels instead of NVidia driver has been one of my main motivations to use tumpleweed instead of Leap …
A matter of habit with the Nvidia.run drivers, putting blacklist nouveau, I never stay with the black monitor, I part with the Vesa drivers after updating the kernel, uninstall reboot and reinstall Nvidia.run, a few minutes and done https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_the_hard_way
Once you’ve installed the compilers
Everything is done with three commands
For the time being I will wait for a fix before I install nvidia drivers … I might try kernel 4.12.8 which is already available in factory repos. Did anyone try that one already - does it fix the issue?
Since beginning of august there is now an official nvidia opensuse repository for opensuse tumbleweed. This should finally end the annoying manual reinstallations of the nvidia driver when using tumbleweed. It is described here: https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2017-08/msg00281.html
i am using it and it works great, i am totally exalted.
I thought of doing this, too. But I am unsure because I read that nvidia’s proprietary drivers make problems under tumbleweed. How dod you install the driver - from repos? It seems you have downloaded it from nvidia. But then I wouldn’t know how to remove it if it does not work properly … (helpless …)
You install it in Init3 (multi-user.target) with making executable:
For the time being I will not install the NVidia driver (as I intended to use Nouveau anyway); however, it seems that the Nouveau issues with Kernel 4.12 are not yet solved, too - see for example here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482220
As 4.12 promised several improvements on Nouveau level, so I really hope that the current issues will be solved quickly. (This being said, my personal contribution is limited to providing logs or describing the issue … ).
The good thing is that it works quite well with 4.11.8 …
I just would like to confirm that the recent upgrade to Mesa 17.2 and kernel 4.12.11 resulted in a working Nouveau again. I had already thought of a relation between kernel 4.12 and Mesa 17.1.6 as a root cause of the issue. Well, anyway - problem solved for me.q
Unfortunately, the nouveau driver does not work in the case of fresh installation.
The graphical license page in the early stage of installation still does not come up.
Well, because of the nouveau trouble, I went back to Leap 42.3 about a week ago leaving the non-working tumbleweed partition intact.
That destroyed all the snapshots that had been built under tumbleweed.
Now, because the realtek sound driver is not available on Leap 42.3, I want to go back to Tumbleweed.
However, as I said above, no luck, yet.
