Upgrade: 12.2 to 12.3 - Lost GUI

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#1

I updated my Dell XPS 8300 (Intel i7) from openSuSE 12.2 to openSuSE 12.3 (both 64 bit) and upon reboot, I can no longer get into graphics mode. I use Gnome as my desktop. In investigating this, I believe it to be driver related. My system has an Nvidia GeForce GT 530 (GF108). Based on that, I’m unsure when looking here: SDB:NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE which driver to install. In dumping the information displayed after booting 12.3, this is what I get:

beast:~ # lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 530] (rev a1)

beast:~ # hwinfo --gfxcard
19: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
[Created at pci.319]
Unique ID: VCu0.UCvZyosW3kA
Parent ID: vSkL.DJs1WhQjic7
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
Hardware Class: graphics card
Model: “nVidia VGA compatible controller”
Vendor: pci 0x10de “nVidia Corporation”
Device: pci 0x0de5
SubVendor: pci 0x1b0a
SubDevice: pci 0x90a1
Revision: 0xa1
Memory Range: 0xfa000000-0xfaffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xf8000000-0xf9ffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
I/O Ports: 0xe000-0xefff (rw)
Memory Range: 0xfb000000-0xfb07ffff (ro,non-prefetchable,disabled)
IRQ: 11 (no events)
I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw)
Module Alias: “pci:v000010DEd00000DE5sv00001B0Asd000090A1bc03sc00i00”
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: nvidiafb is not active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe nvidiafb”
Driver Info #1:
Driver Status: nouveau is not active
Driver Activation Cmd: “modprobe nouveau”
Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #9 (PCI bridge)

Primary display adapter: #19

Any hints as to which Nvidia driver I need to install to get 12.3 to boot into the GUI like my 12.2 installation did?

Thanks in advance.

#2

How exactly did you update 12.2 > 12.3

What about adding nomodeset? Did you try?

#3

I upgraded by burning a DVD with the 12.3 image and booting off of that. After rebooting, I went in through yast (character mode) and did an update after the install.

No, I haven’t tried adding the nomodeset. Please, more details about where to put that.

#4

Ok, got it figured out. I had to go here:

 [Drivers - Download NVIDIA Drivers](http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us)

and download Nvidia’s driver for my card, install that and it now comes up in the GUI.

Thanks.

#5

You would need either the G02 or the G03 driver.
If you want to use the 1-click install, just take the first one. (“For all NVIDIA current cards…”)