Unable to start into kde desktop

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Hello,

Recently my OpenSUSE is unable to start into kde desktop.
It gets stuck on terminal asking for my login, and when put my login it says me “have lots of fun”.
I’m only able to start via snappshot.
Can someone help with these please?

Kind Regards

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That’s text mode, so apparently Xorg (the graphical session) is failing to start.

Most likely a graphics driver problem.
What card are you using, and did you install a proprietary driver? (fglrx, nvidia)

Try to login as root in text mode, and then run “startx”. What error messages do you get?

You can roll back to the working snapshot as described here:

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Hello,

Thanks for your reply.
I have to graphic cards, one Nvidia and the other one from Intell.
Kind Regards

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And?

Is this an Optimus system? If it’s a Laptop, it most likely is.
In that case it would run on the intel chip and you shouldn’t install the proprietary nvidia driver as it will break it.
Maybe you did by mistake?

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If this is a notebook then you probably have a Optimus graphic system. This has to be treated different. Did you install the normal NVIDIA driver if so you must remove it and install the bumblebee packages instead

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_Bumblebee

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Yes, It’s a laptop.
Yes, I did install the Nvidia X driver.
OK, I have to remove it and then install bumblebee.
But will I do this on the snapshot or in the terminal where i get stuck?

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Well, you can’t do that on the snapshot, because it is not installed yet there I suppose… :wink:

If you rollback your system, you won’t hace to remove it any more.

But you can just uninstall it in text mode then, to not loose other changes to your system.
Just use yast (works in text mode too) to uninstall all nvidia packages, or run:

zypper rm *nvidia*

(if that wants to remove more than just 4 or 5 packages, better abort and ask back…)

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I don’t use snapshot so not sure look in yast and see if the NVIDIA driver shows installed if so uninstall otherwise you need to do the changes from the command line with the current not the snapshot

Note: You can as root run yast in the command line

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I’ve ran “sudo zypper remove nvidiax” in text mode, but zypper cannot access nvidia repo :s
jeez lots of problems here.

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You don’t need to access the nvidia repo.
Just tell it to ignore the error.

Or use the “–no-refresh” option:

zypper rm --no-refresh *nvidia*

(“nvidiax” is wrong)

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OK, already RM NVIDIA 5packages. Now it keeps going into text mod and I cant boot from snapshot.

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I did the startx command in text mode, and I got this.
C:\Users\Diogo Cruz\Downloads\X

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I did the startx command and I got this.
](http://postimg.org/image/hv86fafef/)http://s23.postimg.org/hv86fafef/IMG_20160206_183831.jpg

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Ok, the error is:

Fatal server error:
(EE) no screens found(EE)

I also note that an /etc/X11/xorg.conf is loaded/used.
Try to remove/rename that.

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OK FYI startx is depreciated and only works for root. Just to let you know

Do you have network? can you try yast from command line or follow bumblebee instructions with zypper commands

So first off be very very sure that you machine is an Optimus configured graphics. Only the manufacture can really tell you as far as I know there are no tests to let you know. In the BIOS can yo turn off the Intel GPU? if not probably a Optimus.

If you have and /etc/X11/xorg.conf file rename it they be forcing the system to load the now non existent NVIDA driver.

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Hello,

I did what you tell me to do, roll back from snapshot, rm nvidia and install bumblebee.
But I still have screen glitches and my system is kinda slow.

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Well, what kind of glitches?

Please post your /var/log/Xorg.0.org. Maybe the intel driver is not in use, the generic fallback is kinda slow.