I have done four clean installs of 11.1 here, using the Live CD.
Everything installs just fine until I install the Nvidia driver, then when I reboot, I’m left with nothing but a black screen. It doesn’t matter whether I have Windows effects enabled or not. I get a flash of some sort of Plasma error and that’s all. I can see the mouse cursor on the black screen, but nothing more.
I enabled the Nvidia repo through YAST, Community repo’s to install the Nvidia driver. Seems to install just fine. This is an older FX5200 video card, as I’m installing in my test box, so the version 173 Nvidia driver is selected automatically.
Incidentally, the same hardware works just fine with Kubuntu 8.10 and KDE4.
There are more than one nvidia drivers in the repo. If you installed the default nvidia driver for the pae kernel, you get a black screen. In fact, I had so much trouble with 11.0 and the pae kernel, I uninstalled it and installed the default kernel. You can use software manager to do this. To find out what kernel you have at a terminal prompt try “uname -a” without the quotes.
I’m in a different pickle. Can’t get xorg.conf to give me the proper screen resolution for my LCD monitor. Been working it for 6 hours and can’t get it right!
Happened to me too, and I have an ATI radeon 1550 which works just fine with 10.3, after
the message on the console shows something indicating it is initializing the X11 and the display just went totaly black. Happened everytime.
Actually, I think it has nothing to do with graphics. When trying to restore the botched installation, I saw that the boot configuration failed and all attempts to repair it just failed. My system has 4 ATA and 2 SATA disks, dual boot XP and Linux. With 10.3, everything works fine, but with 11.1, the boot loader config failed. It seems Grub modification has changed something that just does not work with my system any more.