greetings,
first I would like to apologise if thread like this exists. I’ve looked but didn’t find thread that could help me.
my problem is as follows.
As 12.1 was released I’ve installed it on my laptop with nvidia proprietary drivers directly downloaded from nvidia site and followed the install instructions from nvidia the hard way thread.
now I’ve decided to do install from repo. after install X is not starting. what should I do to fix that.
casperius wrote:
>
> greetings,
>
> first I would like to apologise if thread like this exists. I’ve looked
> but didn’t find thread that could help me.
>
> my problem is as follows.
> As 12.1 was released I’ve installed it on my laptop with nvidia
> proprietary drivers directly downloaded from nvidia site and followed
> the install instructions from nvidia the hard way thread.
> now I’ve decided to do install from repo. after install X is not
> starting. what should I do to fix that.
The Nvidia repo now has the 285.05.09 version rpm up which is close to the
latest version available from Nvidia directly. I had similar issues until I
went back to the version I had installed “the hard way” then ran the
NVIDIA…run --uninstall (use --help to get the exact syntax) AS ROOT to
clean up before installing from the repo. It did require a reboot - no
surprise there.
–
Will Honea
deano_ferrari is advising me to run sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-xxx.xx.xx.run --uninstall and hank_se sayis that one also needs to reinstall xorg-x11-server after that
it’s in my thread here -> X doesn’t start with nVidia Drivers with GT 550M (nVidia Optimus) - Page 2
Follow deano_ferrari. Reinstalling the xorg-x11-server package is not a good idea, since it overwrites some symbolic links created by the NVIDIA installer (hard way as well as repo). So, uninstall the “hardway-installed-driver”, then install the driver from the repos.
Reinstalling xorg-x11-server is only ment for an optimus system, where installing nvidia the hard way have overwritten symlinks needed by the intel chip, installing nvidia from the repo won’t do that it uses a different layout.
The latest NVidia 290.10 driver is out, so you can install it the “easy way”.
Is that true? That nVIDIA from repo doesn’t overwrite the mesa libraries - does that mean that you can use ‘bumblebee’ with them and not only use Nouveau? Because I think I tried before and the symlinks for the Intel driver was overwritten even with the nVIDIA from the repository (it used to be special made nvidia drivers for bumblebee in the bumblebee-repository that could coexist with the Intel driver but those where removed for unclear reasons)
Would be sweet if it works, it is now a hassle to get proprietary nvidia and bumblebee without loosing Intel 3d.
Kind regards from a confused Linux nub
Yes the repo driver leaves the mesa-libs untouched, and as far as I know, I don’t use bumblebee myself, bumblebe has code to switch the symlinks for libglx and libGL.
ok, I will give it a shot 
Perhaps I used the .run last time, can’t remember xD
thx
It’s kinda out, yeah.
My 11.4 systems both had troubles since the NVIDIA repository is for kernel 2.6.37.1 (for 11.4) while the last kernesl updates are 2.6.37.6.
I wonder who maintains that repo, Nvidia or openSuse ? Are they not aware of the new kernel?
Am 03.12.2011 21:56, schrieb dich:
> It’s kinda out, yeah.
> My 11.4 systems both had troubles since the NVIDIA repository is for
> kernel 2.6.37.1 (for 11.4) while the last kernesl updates are 2.6.37.6.
> I wonder who maintains that repo, Nvidia or openSuse ? Are they not
> aware of the new kernel?
>
>
No problem here on 11.4 with the drivers from the repo, I think you are
just mislead by the naming
rpm -qa '*nvidia*'
nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-290.10_k2.6.37.1_1.2-12.1.x86_64
x11-video-nvidiaG02-290.10-13.1.x86_64
nvidia-computeG02-290.10-13.1.x86_64
uname -r
2.6.37.6-0.9-desktop
glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: ION/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 290.10
OpenGL extensions:
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PC: oS 11.4 (dual boot 12.1) 64 bit | Intel Core i7-2600@3.40GHz | KDE
4.6.0 | GeForce GT 420 | 16GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.7.3 |
nVidia ION | 3GB Ram
I’m sorry for not replying sooner, I had some other things to take care of.
I’ve decided to reinstall opensuse12.1 and to format all the partitions, it all went fine until I’ve installed the nvidia driver from repository. after that it doesn’t work, it puts me back into console login. failsafe boot works into GUI I don’t know why. any help to solve the problem.
In opening post I’ve forgotten to mention that on this fujitsu siemens laptop I have nvidia 7600GO
I have the same problem, but with AMD Radeon card: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/hardware/469863-radeon-6470m-problem-latest-ati-proprietary-driver-opensuse-12-1-64-bit.html. I log on the failsafe mode and delete the xorg.conf file, then I could boot into the standard mode normally. Of course the ATI driver does not work at all.
Am 17.12.2011 18:06, schrieb casperius:
>he problem.
> In opening post I’ve forgotten to mention that on this fujitsu siemens
> laptop I have nvidia 7600GO
>
again, what is the output from rpm -qa ‘nvidia’ and what is the output
from uname -r
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PC: oS 11.4 (dual boot 12.1) 64 bit | Intel Core i7-2600@3.40GHz | KDE
4.6.0 | GeForce GT 420 | 16GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.7.4 |
nVidia ION | 3GB Ram
ok, here I am again, as mr martin_helm said I’m posting my:
rpm -qa ‘nvidia’
nvidia-computeG02-290.10-13.1.x86_64
nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-290.10_k3.1.0_1.2-12.1.x86_64
x11-video-nvidiaG02-290.10-13.1.x86_64
uname -r
3.1.0-1.2-desktop
now if someone could say what is wrong with my system, I would be grateful.
Am 19.12.2011 19:16, schrieb casperius:
>
> ok, here I am again, as mr martin_helm said I’m posting my:
>
> rpm -qa ‘nvidia’
>
> nvidia-computeG02-290.10-13.1.x86_64
> nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop-290.10_k3.1.0_1.2-12.1.x86_64
> x11-video-nvidiaG02-290.10-13.1.x86_64
>
> uname -r
>
> 3.1.0-1.2-desktop
>
> now if someone could say what is wrong with my system, I would be
> grateful.
>
This combination is ok, correct driver for your card according to
nvidia.com and kernel module version looks also correct, so we have to
look more into the details.
First question is if that laptop has only an nvidia card or is it one of
those systems with optimus technology?
Can you post the exact model?
On the other hand your first post says that installing the driver the
hard way worked so removing the rpms and reinstalling the hard way is
maybe the best solution.
Pasting the xorg log file to susepaste.org (and give us the link) could
shed some light on this problem too to see what is wrong here.
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PC: oS 11.4 (dual boot 12.1) 64 bit | Intel Core i7-2600@3.40GHz | KDE
4.6.0 | GeForce GT 420 | 16GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.7.4 |
nVidia ION | 3GB Ram
my laptop is fujitsu siemens amilo pi1556 I don’t think it is optimus powered.
it worked fine in 11.4 and earlier versions of opensuse screen is 15.4" 1280x800 (in safe mode I only get 1024x768)
edit:
here is the link to the xorg.conf
and here is my xorg.log link
Am 19.12.2011 20:06, schrieb casperius:
>
> and here is my xorg.log link
>
> ‘SUSE Paste’ (http://susepaste.org/9631436)
>
>
I see here
Kernel command line:
root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200BEKT-22F3T0_WD-WXMY08L24579-part6
apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off
processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe vga=0x317
so it is the log file when you run failsafe which does not help much, I
should have been more specific.
Do not start failsafe until you reach the console login.
Now copy the log file from the failed X start to some different name
which will not be overwritten and which you can post when starting in
failsafe mode. Hope that is clear enough described. If not ask back and
I try to explain better.
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PC: oS 11.4 (dual boot 12.1) 64 bit | Intel Core i7-2600@3.40GHz | KDE
4.6.0 | GeForce GT 420 | 16GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.7.4 |
nVidia ION | 3GB Ram
I would appreciate the help. I’m using linux for 5 years now, but I’m way behind on cli work.
If you can write down the command I should input to save xorg.log before it gets replaced with something else.