On 2022-02-17 23:41, mark neidorff wrote:
Hello again,
I wish to apologize for starting to receive your help back in November, and then disappearing for months. The reason for disappearing was medical issues (not COVID or COVID related) which I will just have to deal with.
Moving forward, I found that there are problems with the NVidia drivers and for me, trying more with the NVidia card is not worth it. Fortunately, there is an Intel video chip i915 on the motherboard, so I decided to use that instead of the NVidia card. I removed the NVidia video drivers and the nouveau drivers through yast. But, I still have problems.
Symptoms: Cold boot screens: 1. Grub screen--looks and works fine 2. Next screen says "Loading" and works fine. 3. Third screen is the expected grey color. 3 visual green progress bars scroll across the center of the screen---*BUT!!!! PROBLEM???* 3 visual green "artifact" bars appear at the top left side of the screen after a couple of seconds. (this is my first indication that all is not right) 4. Then the login screen appears, and I can login.
My graphical desktop appears....but after a while, the cooling fans on the video card and the power supply spin loudly at what I assume to be maximum speed and the computer is frozen. Holding the power button (or probably pulling the plug, which I did not try)is the only thing that will shut the system down.
Next, I logged in as root and ran # lsmod | grep nouveau and I found that the nouveau module is still loading...and I'm wondering if that is the problem?
You have to blacklist it, not uninstall it. Create a suitable file under /etc/modprobe.d/, with this line: blacklist nouveau -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar)