No login to XSERVER with nvidia

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#1

Lo, I realy hope somebody can help. I think I know totaly screwed up my system.
The default driver which was installed during installation worked (I think it is nouveau) but I wanted more performance.
All I wanted was, to get a working nvidia driver.

My Hardware:
Dell Inspiron 9400 with Geforce 7800 GO

What I did:

  1. Installed kernel-desktop and x11-video-nvidiaG02 deleted nouveau
    -> No X,
    Set the option nomodeset in /boot/grub/menu.lst
    -> Still no X

  2. deleted x11-video-nvidiaG02 installed nouveau
    -> X works but with a resultion 800x600 ! and no way to change

  3. downloaded latest binary driver
    zypper gcc make automake autoconf kernel-source kernel-syms
    echo “blacklist noueveau” > /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf

init 3
Installed binary nvidia
-> no x after reboot
startx message is:

(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to get supported display device(s)
(EE) NVIDIA(0): No dieplay device found for this X screen.
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
...
...
xinit failed. /usr/bin/Xorg is not setuid, maybe that's the reason?
If so either use a display manager (strongly recommended) or adjust /etc/permissions.local

my xorg.conf


Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Layout0"
	Screen      0  "Screen 0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/psaux"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier        "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Unknown"
        ModelName     "Unknown"
        HoriSync        28.0 - 96.0
        VertRefresh    43.0 - 60.0
        Option           "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier       "Device0"
	Driver           "nvidia"
        VendorName  "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Device0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     16
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     16
                Modes    "1920x1200"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

I hope somebody can help, I’m realy frustrated :frowning:

#2

forget to mention: System is a new installed OpenSuse 12.1

#3

I’d suggest you install from the nvidia repo. Remember to remove the binary installation first - the installer have a --uninstall option IINM. did you check the SDB here?

#4

Remove the stuff you installed and type that:

su -l
zypper ar ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/12.1/  nvidia
zypper refresh
zypper install x11-video-nvidiaG02
#5

Did as you sugested.

called nvidia-uninstall
removed xorg.conf
commented all entries in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
installed x11-video-nvidiaG02

I still get a resolution of 800x600 (seems to be vesa)

How can I tell xorg to start a new autodetection of the driver?

#6

I assume you removed xorg.conf before installing the driver (?).
you can check if the module has been loaded with the command:

lsmod | grep nvidia

You can see if the driver is used in the output of

hwinfo --gfxcard

or by looking in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

#7

the NVIDIA Driver is listed
but I still just get 800x600

Since there so many people having problems with the nvidia driver I’ll reinstall opensuse and use the default driver. (not fast but works at least)
I think the nvidia driver is not yet ready to use with 12.1

#8

Hello everybody,

thanks for the info. i had problem with starting x server now its solved by using code hwinfo --gfxcard as (please_try_again) suggested

thanks