New installation of Leap 42.1 Was working properly. I installed the Nvidia drivers using yast as I wanted 3d graphics.
Now, when I boot, I get the grub2 screen, I select the default choice, I see the square with the three dots going back and forth, then a black screen with the cursor in the upper left corner of the screen. It doesn’t even blink. I don’t even see the login screen. I can’t find any keypress that lets me get past it.
How can I get it to boot without the graphical screen?
try booting in text mode and redownload the nvidia driver
edit grub by pressing ‘e’ and add the number **3 **at the end of the line
in init 3 run yast and reinstall nvidia, do not black list nuovou or do any other things.
or boot without extra drivers by adding **nomodeset **at the boot line in grub, reboot reinstall nvidia and reboot.
That is a desktop right, do you have a cpu with a buildin gpu, you need to disable it in bios for nvidia drivers to work, if you have a newer laptop then it’s probably an optimus rig and you need bumblebee the regular nvidia drivers will not work
As I stated, this was a new installation, so doing it over wasn’t a real problem, just didn’t let me learn anything. Or so I thought. The second installation went south also. As soon as I started to do the required updates. Then, I found it was my ISP, of all things. MY connection had gone flaky! So, I switched over to my painfully slow 10 Mbs DSL connection and all went well. I’m using Leap 42.1 at present. A lot of things I don’t like about it, but mainly it just works. That’s all I ask. I_A, no built in gpu, this is an Intel 5960 chip. Hard enough keeping it cool without a gpu!
I_A, no built in gpu, this is an Intel 5960 chip. Hard enough keeping it cool without a gpu!