After installation of 11.3 I had intermittent hangs and blurred icons.
“My Computer” told me I had a Nvidia GeForce 9100 and a driver
called “gallium”. That was the problem.
I added “ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.3” to my
repository and found a new driver to install. That solved my problems.
Now my systems are rock solid.
Cheers,
Ake
akeblomberg says:
After installation of 11.3 I had intermittent hangs and blurred icons.
“My Computer” told me I had a Nvidia GeForce 9100 and a driver
called “gallium”. That was the problem.
I added “ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.3” to my
repository and found a new driver to install. That solved my problems.
Now my systems are rock solid.
Cheers,
Ake
Thanks for the information there Ake and welcome to the openSUSE forums. Please feel free to jump and provide help on any issue you understand here.
Thank You,
Great that your system works! I also upgraded to 11.3 having added the NVIDIA-repository to my list of repositories. My card is a GForce 8600M GS. I cannot boot, except with the Failsafe-option. When I try to start the NVIDIA-setting I receive the message that the NVIDIA driver doesn’t seem to be installed.
In /etc/X11/xorg.conf, however, I find the statement that it is used.
Nothing changes when I run (as SU) NVIDIA-xconfig.
I also checked that the system variable NO_KMS_IN_INITRD was set to yes.
I deinstalled the NVIDIA driver and reinstalled it (YAST).
I removed the file xorg.conf and created it again running NVIDIA-xconfig.
What else can I do?
Did you use nomodeset boot parameter?
Yes, I also used vga=nomodeset. Im this case grub stops with an error message.
The kernel command is just nomodeset, not vga=. The VGA command sets the display size before the desktop starts running. For instance, on my widescreen, I have vga=0x346. So, the vga command is a number, while nomodeset just stands alone. I found a place that gives the VGA numbers in decimal and must be converted to hex. For instance by 0x346 hex is equal to 838 decimal and on the chart represents a picture 1400x1050 resolution at 24 bit color.
VESA BIOS Extensions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thank You,
Great that your system works! I also upgraded to 11.3 having added the NVIDIA-repository to my list of repositories. My card is a GForce 8600M GS.
FYI - I’m running this same card, worked immediately with default settings (detected 1680x1050) on an 11.3 fresh install compiled from the tar(not the RPM people are referring to in this thread).
Driver version: 256.53
HP Pavilion dv9500
Also have nVidia dock installed and working fine.
HTH,
Tony
Note that since you manually installed the driver any change/update to kernel will require you to reinstall the driver. If you install via the repo’s the driver will relink auto-magically.
If you haven’t deleted the nouveau rpm, you must blacklist nouveau.
The steps are as follows:
Step 1.
Open a konsole and type:
sudo echo “blacklist nouveau” >> /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf
Step 2.
To confirm that it was added to the list, type:
cat /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf
Good Luck!
Romanator
Well, hopefully at least. Wasn’t it a problem with the nvidia driver that killed the usb mouse and keyboard on the kernel update before last?
May have been but without the driver linked you will not be able to start X. Thus no GUI until the driver is reinstalled or you use a default driver. It is only a matter of convenience since manual install is not hard once you know how.
Yes, but I rarely want something as fundamental and complex as a video driver to update automagically.
Others might have a different opinion, but I’ll always try to initially install the latest driver that will work, and then I’ll stick with ol’ faithful until there’s a pretty darn good reason to change.
Tony