Nvidia Drivers not working again

Sorry, I don’t remember what the problem was. What happens now when you do startx ?

did you do “nvidia-xconfig” after you installed the driver?

you can see if you have 3d acceleration like this

glxinfo | grep rendering 

xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.2354

Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0
If this server is no longer running, remove /temp/.X0-lock and start again.

Invalid MIT-MAGIK-COOKIE-COOKIE-1 keygiving up
xinit: Resource temporarily unavailable (errno 11): unbale to connect X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

I enter command glxinfo | grep rendering and nothing happened.

yikes dude! this is why I don’t do nvidia the hard way lol! If you can get into a graphical screen at all then you can always just go the easy route by using the repos and cross your fingers. Otherwise I think the opensuse dvd has an option to repair a current install you can always try that to get back to default settings and try again.

Nonsense! Just kill X from a console or reboot in runlevel 3 and delete these files.

If i do any or both of those then i would be able to connect with my GUI again? Can you provide more me more informations on how to proceed?

The error message you got was self explaining:

If this server is no longer running, remove /temp/.X0-lock and start again.

You tried to start the X server while it was already running or while it left a lock file behind, makehing the system believe that it was already running. As a consequence you could not access the display. There is nothing to repare or reinstall at this point, just do:
rm /temp/.X0-lock

On the other hand I noticed that you tried to start X as root. It was not necessary. You can log in as user after booting in runlevel 3 and run startx.

What do I must to do after removing the file? Shall i copy what shows in init 3 after typing startx?

  • boot in runlevel 3

  • at login prompt, type user name and password

  • run startx

  • if it doesn’t work, type
    cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log
    and post outpout

  • if it does work, run sudo nvidia-settings
    to adjust resolution… Actually there is a specific ‘sudo’ command to Kde or Gnome that might work better. I don’t remember it but I’m sure somebody can tell us.

Okey startx didn’t work and also i coulnd’t post cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log as it was a long list and i could not find a way to paste it here as i couldn’t enter my GUI.

I removed openSuse and reinstalled them. I tried installing them with repositories just like you told me. As i thought it failed. Now my system is up to date with nvidia drivers unistalled.

Can someone please help me step by step installing the drivers? Because i almost tried everything that it has been said here or anything i could find on other forums and site and nothing works for me.

This is getting really annoying for a new linux user like me. I really don’t want to go back to windows.

you can try the one click install from

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Guys… as ‘rpm -qa | grep kernel’ shows, he still has ‘kernel-syms’ installed.