Don’t know what’s happened. I get as far as the splash with the ripple effect on the green scales and then after that a black screen with a dash in the top left corner. Is it beyond repair? :0(
Video and driver??
Hi thanks for the quick response. I have an nvidia GeForce 9500 GT. I am sorry I can’t remember the driver. I did not change the driver and just went with the recommended option
Hi just wondering if this is fixable otherwise will do reinstall later
Maybe install the NVIDIA driver for that card???
Can you get on from recovery mode boot? At boot change to advanced then second entry
Thanks how do I that? Sorry I have advanced option and then when I click on that only one menu entry and no recovery mode. Alternatively would it be feasible to use live cd and copy a file across? If so where would I install . Thanks again
Well have no idea how you managed no recovery mode???
At boot screen press e to go to edit mode. find line beginning linux go to the true end of that line (it wraps) enter a space and nomodeset press F10 to continue this should start things with fall back drivers. If you use Gnome log in to any other desktop (Gnome probably may not work) then follow
It has been removed completely recently in Leap and Tumbleweed:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=947681
I just did an update for tumbleweed and I’m experiencing the same black screen but also three windows that say plasma crashed. The nvidia driver 355.11 will not build with the 4.3 kernel. I was able to log in with the last working kernel 4.2.4-1-default.
When booting the 4.3 kernel, I removed nomodeset from the boot screen and the nouveau driver loaded but that’s what gave me the black screen and the plasma crash.
Edit: I forgot to say that I have a mouse cursor with the black screen.
And what card do you have?
Apparently the latest 358.09 should work with kernel 4.3.0:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2015-11/msg00303.html
When booting the 4.3 kernel, I removed nomodeset from the boot screen and the nouveau driver loaded but that’s what gave me the black screen and the plasma crash.
Did you completely remove the nvidia driver and run “mkinitrd”?
Mesa does not work with nvidia installed, which breaks nouveau’s OpenGL support and can likely cause such a problem.
No, I couldn’t build the nvidia driver with 4.3 so I’m pretty sure that means no nvidia driver is installed when I boot the 4.3 kernel.
Thanks for the tip about 358.09. I usually don’t install the beta drivers but I guess I’ll give it a try.
If you installed it before and didn’t remove it, it is still installed.
This is not about the kernel modules, but about the system libraries (libglx, libGL1) that get replaced by nvidia versions, which breaks the open source drivers.
Okay, good to know. I’ll try the new nvidia driver first.
Thanks. Sorry for not responding sooner; I have been ill
Thr nomodeset thing gets me to a black screen that is illuminated if you know I mean. No cursors or dashes. No alt F2 etc
Then it’s probably not a graphics driver problem (if you added nomodeset correctly).
Does switching to text mode work? (Ctrl+Alt+F1)
Does booting to text mode work? (append a ‘3’ to the kernel command line like you did before with “nomodeset”)
If yes, maybe try to switch to a different display/login manager.
Log in as root, open /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager in an editor (vim, joe, pico, nano, mcedit, …) or run YaST->System->/etc/sysconfig editor, and change the DISPLAYMANAGER setting to “xdm”.
Hey thanks so much! The text thing worked. I was able to log in and run Zypper dup and let some updates go through and then I was able to log back into my lovely plasma 5 desktop!!
Quick question…my nvidia driver is Noveau. Is this the best one or would you recommend something else?
First off, correct spelling is Nouveau. Second, Nouveau is an open source reverse-engineered version of the proprietary nvidia driver. The nvidia driver is installed either by downloading the driver from nvidia and compiling and installing it yourself, (not too hard) or adding the nvidia repo for openSUSE and installing with YaST or zypper. I don’t see an nvidia repo for Tumbleweed but there is one for Leap.
Edit: Come to think of it, Tumbleweed and Leap use different kernels so building the nvidia kernel module yourself is probably the only option for Tumbleweed.