this newbie still failing with Nvidia, what to do?

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I still have problems with setting up Nvidia and desktop effects. what can a newbie do?

at first got into enabling desktop effexts, but still remained problem,and could’t not go forward, because did not had enough disk space. Now enlarged Linux enough.

installed gcc, and kernel source, and downloadedthrough Yast the driver for my 8400GS card - x11-video-nvidiaG02-180.51-1.1

after the installation I’ve got a notice about a new kernel, and the need to reboot. And I did so, and that’s where the problems popped up.

In the login screen Ive got:

trace…opensuse 11.1-2.6.27.21-0.1
opensuse 11.1-2.6.27.7-9-default
failfalse 11.1-2.6.27.7-9
Windows

on the default login I’ve got into console mode, with black screen:
linux-e8i0 login:
password:

after doing it got to:
judit@linux-e8i0:

and that’s were I stacked.

on the Trace…login I could get into linux, but could not even set up the screen resolution to normal.
On the failfalse had the same problem.

So in the mainwhile I reinstalled opensuse, but still would like to get through this Nvidia/desktop effects barrier.

What to do? And please while writing an answer, consider, that I am new to linux.

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Hi

Supported Products List says you should be using Version: 180.51.

For me I would add the nvidia repository to YaST and then select

nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-default

I think you chose the ‘trace’ option rather than the default option, I’m not sure if you should have or need to?

See how that goes.

Also, if you are at the prompt as you describe you could try typing in startx and see what happens.

Cheers
Steve

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This is a rare problem that keeps propping up for some reason and it’s been hard to track down why it happen - the nVidia drivers pull the trace kernel (Realtime) and install itself and the kernel but to none of the other kernels. There’s a relatively easy way to fix this; first of all remove all NVidia modules/drivers, the Trace kernel and use the open source NV driver.

Once you’ve gotten rid of the trace kernel, open a terminal (as root!) and type; zypper al kernel-trace kernel-xen

This will add a lock that will prevent the trace or xen kernels being installed even if the installer wishes to. It will then properly install the nVidia module in the right location, that being the default kernel. After that proceed to install the nVidia drivers via the 1-click method and you should have a working system.

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thanks for the answer.

getting: nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-default
indeed made the installation smooth, and also the new kernel went through without problems. So far everything seems to be ok, so as for today I won’t challange my luck more.

:slight_smile: