Hi, I just installed the NVIDIA driver (ver 565 with open kernel module) via “the hard way”. I was using X11 before and even after the driver update, I can login to x11 fine. But when I select Wayland on the login screen and try to login, the screen just switches to the console for a second and then just goes back to the graphical login screen again. What could be the problem here? With the old driver (550) I had no problems starting a Wayland sessions before.
Another thing i just noticed is, that my steam games do not start anymore with the new driver (on x11). I do not know if this is because of I also switched to the open kernel module, or if the new driver itself causes this, but I decided to do a rollback and stay on the old driver. But if anyone has anything helpful to say, I would be glad to hear it.
The run-File?
yes I downloaded the current feature branch run file and, after uninstalling the old driver (ver 550) and deactivating the repository. I rebooted and ran the runfile. I basically accepted every option i was given, one question was to use the proprietary kernel module or the open one, i selected the open module.
I’m using the 565.77.run from nvidia but I am using the proprietary module and wayland is working in tumbleweed.
Maybe try using Snapper to rollback before you did the update and then see if it all works, then try updating again?
Yes I made a snapper snapshot before and already did a rollback. I am currently back on 550 again. I will try it one more time today, this time selecting the proprietary kernel module to see if it makes a difference. But even if it does, I will probably switch back again, because I have read multiple times now, that the open kernel module is the way even NVIDIA recommends
I tried to reinstall the driver using the runfile, this time everything got worse. Not even that the installer detected an old installation (ironically of the 565 driver itself, even i did a rollback), but was had errors doing so because some files were not found. On the adding to the dkms part, I got an error that the driver is already added?! Anyways I the installer seems to manage to install the driver again (but I am not sure) this time with the proprietary kernel module. The result was graphical login at all.
So I did another roll back and got my old version with the driver version 550 back and everything works again. Even if it seems that there as some of the driver update which were not reverted.
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