I have fresh installed openSUSE (not for this reason but for figuring out how to get drivers to work and for setting up dual booting purposes) so I don’t think it’s a problem with the OS itself but maybe compatibility with my hardware perhaps?
I’m running
i7-4790k, MSI Golden edition GTX970 GPU, 16GB RAM
Pressing any of the Ctrl+Alt+Fbuttons or booting init 3 brings me to a black screen (or makes my monitor go black), there is nothing on it. I cannot type anything or get out of it besides resetting my computer.
Does anyone have any ideas for getting TTY (Ctrl+alt+Fbuttons and boot init 3) working? I’ve read from doing a bit of research that this is a problem with nvidia drivers? It’s not a big deal but I fear it may lead to problems with other things or may be an underlying problem. Also I’d like the full linux experience.
I see you are having this problem when going to a console screen. No, that is not typical to the graphics driver problem you are probably reading about in other threads.
First, are you able to boot to the graphical desktop without any problem? More info is needed, especially openSUSE version.
You can try booting to a console (or install the “server” version of openSUSE which has no Desktop).
Since the nVidia driver installs only when the Desktop loads (after the Grub menu), you can test your hot buttons running Grub’s VESA driver(which unless things have changed is Grub2’s default driver today).
openSUSE 13.2. By graphical desktop do you mean normal gnome desktop? I can boot normally, gnome desktop is great, I haven’t noticed any other problems. The only problem is that the Ctrl+alt+Fbuttons which are supposed to be TTY just turn off my screen (and keyboard I think) and I can’t do anything to get out of the black screen that has nothing on it besides restarting.
I would actually like to use my nvidia drivers though. It raises my monitor resolution from 1024x768 to 1920x1080 and also for any video I want to watch. This problem might not be related to the drivers since when I was trying to actually install nvidia drivers in the first place, a few of the steps IRC folks kindly gave me was to go into TTY and init 3 to shut down my x-server to then install those drivers. So the problem was present before the nvidia drivers were there I think.