I have a machine that had been sitting around for a while (6 months?) and tried to get it back up and running but I need some help. The machine was running the proprietary nvidia drivers with dual monitors and without problems.
The first thing I did after the first boot up was an update. There were about 500 packages that got updated, the nvidia drivers among the update list. Upon reboot after the update completed the system would only boot to runlevel 3. I was able to uninstall the nvidia driver and get back to X using the noveau driver. I thought with that working I could have a successful install of the nvidia drivers using zypper install of x11-video-nvidiaG03 but after trying couple of times I always end up at tty after reboot.
dogbert:~ # lsmod | grep nv
nvidia_uvm 45056 0
nvidia 10584064 1 nvidia_uvm
drm 385024 2 nvidia
dogbert:~ # lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G96 [GeForce 9400 GT] (rev a1)
I tried to par down the following to keep the post size reasonable - I can post the entire log if that would help
dogbert:~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log
19.828]
X.Org X Server 1.17.2
Release Date: 2015-06-16
19.828] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
19.828] Build Operating System: openSUSE SUSE LINUX
19.828] Current Operating System: Linux dogbert 4.1.39-53-default #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 30 06:44:23 UTC 2017 (56cc5a0) x86_64
19.828] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.1.39-53-default root=UUID=5e3e354b-d02e-492d-845d-05695f2a282b resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD6401AALS-00L3B2_WD-WCASY5094861-part1 splash=silent quiet showopts
19.828] Build Date: 22 March 2017 10:08:16AM
19.828]
19.828] Current version of pixman: 0.32.6
...
20.092] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
20.117] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
20.711] (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
20.711] compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
20.711] Module class: X.Org Server Extension
20.711] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 340.102 Mon Jan 16 12:37:38 PST 2017
20.722] (II) LoadModule: "nv"
20.767] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so
20.768] (II) Module nv: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
20.768] compiled for 1.17.2, module version = 2.1.20
20.768] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
20.768] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 19.0
20.768] (II) NV: driver for NVIDIA chipsets: RIVA 128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2,
Unknown TNT2, Vanta, RIVA TNT2 Ultra, RIVA TNT2 Model 64,
Aladdin TNT2, GeForce 256, GeForce DDR, Quadro, GeForce2 MX/MX 400,
...
GeForce GTS 250M, GeForce 315, GeForce GT 335M, GeForce GTS 350M,
GeForce GTS 360M, Quadro FX 1800M
20.772] (EE) NV: The PCI device 0x10de0641 (GeForce 9400 GT) at 01@00:00:0 has a kernel module claiming it.
20.772] (EE) NV: This driver cannot operate until it has been unloaded.
20.772] (EE) No devices detected.
20.772] (EE)
Fatal server error:
20.772] (EE) no screens found(EE)
20.772] (EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
any suggestions?