Reboot to Terminal screen after Nvidia Driver install, can't get back to Plasma

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Hello All,

Thanks for taking the time to review this post.

Having a bit of a show stopper here,
Installation goes fine, no issues at all with KDE Plasma. However, problems arise after installing the nVidia graphics driver.
After installation and a re-boot. I can only boot into a terminal window

https://i.ibb.co/djd8kvh/re-boot-screen.jpg

I’ve tried this several times.
Fortunately I took a snapshot prior and I can still boot into KDE via that no worries.
Tried to do my due diligence and hunt down any similar issues and found this from a few years ago. But no resolution was ever really made.

Not really sure where to go from here so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Jordan

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Post:

/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -EiA3 'display|3d|vga'

How do you install the Nvidia driver?

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thanks for the response

2 ways.

installed the OS twice, with the same result both times.

About to have have dinner, will give that command a go afterwards.

Jordan.

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MOK keys?
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/556678-Lost-desktop-after-nvidia-drivers-update-maybe-because-of-MOK

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So good News Bad news.

Looks like it’s not an OpenSuse problem (which is good.) But rather that some muppet installed a custom vBios on the card prior to my ownership in 2017 (bad.)

As such I’m not able to run nVidia drivers past 385.41 where code was added to play poorly with custom edited bios. And am not keen on playing roulette with vBios updates on my only reasonable quality graphics card at this time…

Thanks for the suggestions from the members, I really appreciate it. But looks like I’ll need a new GRFx card or to successfully flash the vbios:shame: or find a pre-385.41 Nvidia driver.

Regards
Jordan

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Or use the nouveau kernel driver and modesetting display driver? What is it you do that depends on proprietary drivers?

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The big reason to want the OEM driver is so that my triple 4k monitor setup works correctly. At present I’m able to get 1 and 1/2 monitors working. With 1 monitor at the correct 4k 60Hz a second at ~1080P and the 3rd just stays black.
Presently while using Suse, I just use a single monitor. which isn’t a big deal. As I’ll be getting a new graphics card later in the year.

Regards
Jordan

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Three displays can be simple enough with ordinary displays:

# xrandr | egrep 'onnect|creen|\*' | grep -v disconn | sort -r
**Screen 0**: minimum 320 x 200, current **2560 x 3720**, maximum 16384 x 16384
HDMI-2 connected 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 519mm x 324mm
HDMI-1 connected 1920x1080+0+1200 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 160mm x 90mm
DP-1 connected primary 2560x1440+0+2280 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 598mm x 336mm
   2560x1440     59.95*+  74.92
   1920x1200     59.95*+
   1920x1080     60.00*+  59.94    30.00    24.00    29.97    23.98
# inxi -Sy
System:
  Host: gb250 Kernel: 5.16.2-6.g07a970c-default x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.23.5 Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20220122
# inxi -Gayz
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor: Gigabyte driver: i915 v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5912 class-ID: 0300
  **Display**: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.3 compositor: kwin_x11 **driver:**
    **loaded: modesetting **unloaded: fbdev,vesa alternate: intel display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  **Screen**-1: 0 s-res: **2560x3720** s-dpi: 120 s-size: 541x787mm (21.3x31.0")
    s-diag: 955mm (37.6")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 305 size: 160x90mm (6.3x3.5")
    diag: 184mm (7.2") type: secondary
  Monitor-2: HDMI-2 res: 1920x1200 hz: 60 dpi: 94
    size: 519x324mm (20.4x12.8") diag: 612mm (24.1") type: secondary
  Monitor-3: DP-1 res: 2560x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 109
    size: 598x336mm (23.5x13.2") diag: 686mm (27") type: primary
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.3.4
    direct render: Yes
#

The only setup was this one line script:

xrandr --output DP-1 --primary --output HDMI-1 --above DP-1 --output HDMI-2 --above HDMI-1

Without it, the 3 displays sprawl horizontally. Note the loaded display driver is the default for most AMD, Intel and NVidia GPUs, modesetting DIX.

What complications ensue from using 4K displays I can’t hazard a guess, since my only 4K is a 55" TV in the living room, too far distant from everything else and too big to incorporate in a 3 display configuration in the available space.

Have you already reached out for help and got nothing useful in return to make 3 4Ks work without the proprietary drivers?

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Thanks for the reply. I’ll give it a go when I get home tonight.

I’m reserved to the fact that my GRFX card has issues (believed to be a custom Bios from the previous owner.) As noted if I run drivers past 385.41 in windows I’m down to 1 display at 1200x1024… (and telling windows to stop bloody auto updating the drivers is a painrotfl!. But with the Legacy Driver it works fine.
So the fact I get 1 4k display with generic drivers in Suse is a win. I don’t like my chance of getting Legacy Nvidia Drivers up and running in Suse:question:. But was rather confused why I got dumped at a command line if I installed the up-to-date Nviidia drivers.

I’m pretty keen to give the new Intel card a go. But will likely buy whatever AMD releases later in the year. There looks to be a lot of downward pressure on prices at the moment with crypto falling and supply increasing. So happy days.

Regards
Jordan