On 04/01/12 04:52, Allen wrote:
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 03:58 +0000, Carl Fletcher wrote:
On 04/01/12 03:46, Allen wrote:
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 03:39 +0000, Carl Fletcher wrote:
On 03/01/12 22:31, Allen wrote:
Hi everyone.
I have a Macbook Pro 5,5 running openSUSE 12.1. After installation I
had the Nouveau driver running very happily, much better at switching
external monitors than the proprietary driver.
Unfortunately, I needed to use a projector, and had to revert to the
nVidia driver. I used the repositories to install the driver, all went
well, and the projector worked fine.
But then I wanted to go back to Nouveau. I used YaST to remove the
nvidia driver, expecting things to return as they were, but no such
luck. No I have the system boot without error, but to a console only.
Once I am logged in as root at the console, I then need to type
gdm start
and gnome desktop appears and everything else works fine. The nouveau
driver is installed and working. No errors are reported in X.0.log or
in /var/log/gdm/*
I haven't manually edited any files. Everything I have done in managing
nouveau/nvidia drivers has been done via Yast.
Any ideas on how to start gdm automatically would be much appreciated.
I suspect that the setting here
http://www.imagebam.com/image/0b8bc990401871
May be set to YES, which is OK for using nvidia
Make sure it's NO
Thanks Carl.
It is already set to NO.
I ran /sbin/mkinitrd at a command prompt and got the following
linux-5efu:/home/allen # /sbin/mkinitrd
Kernel image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.1.0-1.2-desktop
Initrd image: /boot/initrd-3.1.0-1.2-desktop
KMS drivers: nouveau nvidia
Root device: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3255GSXF_X96JT4KBT-part4
(/dev/sda4) (mounted on / as ext4)
Resume device: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_MK3255GSXF_X96JT4KBT-part3
(/dev/sda3)
modprobe: Could not read
'/lib/modules/3.1.0-1.2-desktop/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko': No such
file or directory
WARNING: no dependencies for kernel module 'nvidia' found.
Kernel Modules: thermal_sys thermal processor fan pata_acpi button video
wmi mxm-wmi i2c-algo-bit drm drm_kms_helper ttm nouveau
Features: acpi kms block usb resume.userspace resume.kernel
Bootsplash: openSUSE (1280x800), openSUSE (800x600)
As you can see, it has listed under KMS driver both nouveau and nvidia.
Given the nvidia driver is not installed, should this be there?
Any other ideas?
Thanks,
Allen
Umm...
You ought not to login as root, you know that?
What shows with
rpm -qa | grep nvidia
nvidia should not be in the output there
Yes, I know I shouldn't be logged in as root, but I can't login as an
ordinary user at the console, and also start gdm. Once GDM starts I
can login in as my ordinary user profile.
As soon as I can get this fixed to start gdm I will be right.
linux-5efu:/home/allen # rpm -qa | grep nvidia
linux-5efu:/home/allen #
Nothing from nvidia installed. When I am logged in to Gnome3, I am
using the normal desktop (not fallbackmode).
/etc/sysconfig/displaymanager is set to gdm.
Perhaps it is a permission thing on startup (gdm does not start as an
ordinary user), or m,aybe there is a mis-configured profile somewhere
still looking for nvidia.
Thanks for you input so far.
Allen
I know you ran mkinitrd, but try a forced re-install of the kernel from
software manager.
You can verify if there is a issue with the user account by creating a
new (test) user login, try logging in with it.
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