No luck finding a solution, it’s the latest driver, no question about it. I read another thread about it on the ‘installation’ topic. Posted a thread on the NVIDIA forum asking for the previous version to be uploaded to the repositories. There’s a -run file there but I always use the repository so I hope they upload the old files.
the UVM doesn’t exists in the NVIDIA repository anymore and I uninstalled the previous version when trying to install the driver again. There is no uvm for current version of the driver.
Wed Feb 17 14:27:53 UTC 2016 - sndirsch@suse.com
- update to latest long lived branch version 361.28
- new kernel module source layout (now 3 modules); facilitated by
merging UVM kernel module into nvidia-gfxG04 KMP
- added new GLVND libs required for EGL support, but keep non-GLVND
installation for now
And even if uvm was missing, the driver itself should still work, only CUDA will not AFAIK.
I would recommend to explicitly uninstall it though if it is still installed. And then reinstall the standard kmp package:
sudo zypper rm nvidia-gfxG04-uvm-kmp-desktop
sudo zypper in -f nvidia-gfxG04-kmp-desktop
… I tried a manual install of the previous version of the driver (a .run file) and now desktop won’t even display in safe mode, guess I’ll have to do a re-installation and wait until a driver update is posted, use the default driver (noveau) that is installed so I can have a functional pc.
I did, it doesn’t shows it listed. Don’t know what I did wrong, using the XP (game) machine to gather info but it appears th instalation broke further even if I only tried the manual install. Previous to that, when ‘safe mode’ was working, I used Yast to remove the installed NVidia package completely, after trying the manual install of the previous (working) version of the NVidia driver trough a .run file the intaller ends, no error reported but desktop didn’t load not even in safe mode, tried to check what was installed with
rpm -qa | grep nvidia
and nothing is listed, tried to install again the .run file (in command line mode, as root) and it returns an error saying that the versions don’t match or that another drive is blocking, closed te installer and… now neither keyboard or mouse works. -.-
What is your status with the driver now? Did you do the manual uninstall as suggested by wolfi323? The thing is if you want to make your X server work, you cannot mix the nVidia-provided installer with packages from repos. This only leads to breakage, because zypper will never see (register) the *.run installer (it’s not an .rpm package) and the installer will throw an error when it detects existing openGL libraries from an unknown source.
I think your problem may come from the fact that new nVidia drivers require a higher Xorg, X11 and/or kernel version. If possible, I would simply go for openSUSE Leap 42.1 and leave all of the trouble behind :).
POSSIBLE FIX
I’ve had this same problem with my Quadro K2000D card - I think it’s a G04 general problem.
Stefan Dirsch, the packager, suggested a fix which worked for me. Details are in the other thread about this problem (follow this link) but the executive summary is:
Weak updates linking is not working properly.
**DELETE **any older installed kernel versions.
Make sure you are running the (single) installed kernel. Re-install nvidia-gfxG04-kmp-desktop-361.28_k3.16.6_2-23.1.x86_64.rpm
This forces a re-build of the relevant modules. I should add that I had also deleted /lib/modules/3.16.6-2-desktop as part of my cleanup. This was re-created by the installer. My system now works perfectly again (apart from only having a single kernel version available).
FYI, I just updated nvidia-bumblebee to version 361.28 on Leap without a glitch. Don’t know what happens with non-Optimus systems with the “regular” Nvidia G04 though…
thinking about it… a bit scare after 2 re-install yesterday… I may try after day’s work is done since at least I have a working system with a low-res screen.
There seems to be a problem with setting up the weak update module links properly in the install script. Stefan’s suggestion was to **delete any old kernel versions then **re-install nvidia-gfxG04-kmp-desktop-361.28_k3.16.6_2-23.1.x86_64.rpm
Make sure that the one kernel installed is in fact the one that is running, then re-install the driver.
This procedure forces the installer to compile fresh modules and gets the links right as well.
After doing this, my system is back to running with its full 4K graphics glory! lol! The only downside is that now I only have the one kernel available. Normally I keep two versions in case an update has unexpected effects that mean I have to revert.
Before the re-installation step I visited /lib/modules and deleted any stuff from the previous kernel versions. I noticed that after re-installation, the directory /lib/modules/3.16.6-2-desktop re-appeared, and this is where the actual nvidia modules seem to be kept. There are symlinks from the current kernel weak-updates/update directory to these modules********
