This card has issues with all binary drivers, tried the repo and the usual init 3 way.
Tried 7-8 different driver versions. NVNews site suggested it’s a framebuffer problem.
Everytime I log out of KDE, X server fails to restart and displays distorted console characters instead of login screen.
When this happens, hardware reset is required, keyboard won’t respond.
Did you try the latest upstream drivers? SDB:NVIDIA the hard way - openSUSE
If you mean 295.59 then yes, init 3 way, with no KMS, nomodeset and blacklist nouveau. I didn’t use the beta driver.
Sorry my bad I must have skimmed where you said the init3 way. Yeah you did it correctly, sorry to kind of pointlessly reply.
KMS is disabled when you install the nvidia driver (from package, not the hard way). Thus nomodeset has no effect in this case. Try to boot with the option ‘nopat’ and see if it makes a difference.
Just used nomodeset once to install .run file from init 3
Tried nopat just now, doesn’t help, only x11failsafe parameter can fix this but then the resolution is all wrong.
I prefer native 1680x1050_60 for X because it works best for my monitor. Using vga=0x31B (1280x1024) parameter for console, vesa seems to lack 1680x1050
Was asking about this here,before I found out it’s a hardware specific issue and not system fault.
It doesn’t happen with 9500gt on the same system and I’m sure it’s not 12.1 specific cause the same thing shows up on SLED 11 sp1
Last thing you can try is to disable vesa mode completely by removing the vga option or setting it to normal. I usually use ‘nopat’ to avoid doing that (on old nvidia cards though).
Could it be that the memory is bad on this card? Did you try with another card of the same model?
Setting vga=normal or removing the parameter doesn’t fix the problem.
I don’t have another card, but if there was factory fault, I think it would crash more often.
Right now, it breaks only on logout and ctrl+alt+backspace and both of these work fine with x11failsafe.
I’ve seen a thread on NVNews forum about Fermi cards having this exact same issue with framebuffer due to some change in driver.
Someone said it won’t be fixed unless nvidia rolls back something. Can’t link this, they’ve closed the forum and I don’t have an account there.
Seems like nvnews forum is public again, this is the thread.
The difference is that boot/reboot works fine for me (both splash=silent and splash=verbose) switch to TTY works fine and vga=0x31B works fine.
Acceleration works, I haven’t seen any graphics distortions anywhere else and the card performance is normal.
Only time I can notice the issue is on logout and ctrl+backspace, so I’ll stop using these as a temporary workaround.