[opensuse] nVidia Drivers on openSUSE 12
Hi, openSUSE breaks when using nVidia drivers for my PC. Earlier I installed it using manual method and blocklisted Nouvea. Everything was fine until I installed Google Chrome which also installed some xserver packaged and when I restarted PC later I had not GUI and was stuck with TTY. I reformatted and this time used the One Click Method. Everything was fine and it worked great until I installed freeworld and again the system was broken and no GUI. Can you please help? My card is GTX 470. -- <b>Swapnil Bhartiya</b><br> Editor: Muktware.com<br> Skype: No Way...its non-free. Looking for alternatives<br> Facebook: http://facebook.com/muktware<br> Twitter: http://twitter.com/muktware Google+ : https://plus.google.com/109027644713767623413/posts -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Monday, November 28, 2011 08:42:00 AM Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
Hi,
openSUSE breaks when using nVidia drivers for my PC. Earlier I installed it using manual method and blocklisted Nouvea. Everything was fine until I installed Google Chrome which also installed some xserver packaged and when I restarted PC later I had not GUI and was stuck with TTY.
I reformatted and this time used the One Click Method. Everything was fine and it worked great until I installed freeworld and again the system was broken and no GUI.
Can you please help?
My card is GTX 470. That is very odd. Where are you installing these software from? How are you getting your drivers? -- Roger Luedecke openSUSE Ambassador Ind. Repairs and Consulting **Looking for a C++ etc. mentor*** -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 11/28/2011 03:14 PM, Roger Luedecke wrote:
On Monday, November 28, 2011 08:42:00 AM Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
Hi,
openSUSE breaks when using nVidia drivers for my PC. Earlier I installed it using manual method and blocklisted Nouvea. Everything was fine until I installed Google Chrome which also installed some xserver packaged and when I restarted PC later I had not GUI and was stuck with TTY.
I reformatted and this time used the One Click Method. Everything was fine and it worked great until I installed freeworld and again the system was broken and no GUI.
Can you please help?
My card is GTX 470. That is very odd. Where are you installing these software from? How are you getting your drivers?
From the openSUSE site. The one click install for the driver. Rest of the software I install using Add/Remove tool of openSUSE. I will greatly appreciate help. -- <b>Swapnil Bhartiya</b><br> Editor: Muktware.com<br> Skype: No Way...its non-free. Looking for alternatives<br> Facebook: http://facebook.com/muktware<br> Twitter: http://twitter.com/muktware Google+ : https://plus.google.com/109027644713767623413/posts -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
2011/11/28 Swapnil Bhartiya
Hi,
openSUSE breaks when using nVidia drivers for my PC. Earlier I installed it using manual method and blocklisted Nouvea. Everything was fine until I installed Google Chrome which also installed some xserver packaged and when I restarted PC later I had not GUI and was stuck with TTY.
"LibGL replacement" ? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
openSUSE breaks when using nVidia drivers for my PC. Earlier I installed it using manual method and blocklisted Nouvea. Everything was fine until I installed Google Chrome which also installed some xserver packaged and when I restarted PC later I had not GUI and was stuck with TTY.
"LibGL replacement" ?
I just installed nvidia drivers using the openSUSE site's One Click option. -- <b>Swapnil Bhartiya</b><br> Editor: Muktware.com<br> Skype: No Way...its non-free. Looking for alternatives<br> Facebook: http://facebook.com/muktware<br> Twitter: http://twitter.com/muktware Google+ : https://plus.google.com/109027644713767623413/posts -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:31:52 Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
openSUSE breaks when using nVidia drivers for my PC. Earlier I installed it using manual method and blocklisted Nouvea. Everything was fine until I installed Google Chrome which also installed some xserver packaged and when I restarted PC later I had not GUI and was stuck with TTY.
"LibGL replacement" ?
I just installed nvidia drivers using the openSUSE site's One Click option.
You need to tell us which exact repository you installed the nVidia drivers from and which repository you installed Google Chrome from. You mentioned that some "xserver packages" were replaced - this will be the cause of the driver failing to load. The source of the problem is that you have used 2 repositories that have conflicting versions of those packages. When someone asks you "from where did you install the software?", be specific about what repositories were used. You'll be much more likely to get a useful answer. Without that info, everyone is just guessing. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
You need to tell us which exact repository you installed the nVidia drivers from and which repository you installed Google Chrome from.
I did not add the Nvidia repository in the YaST. I visited the openSUSE page [http://en.opensuse.org//SDB:NVIDIA_drivers] and used one click install method to install the nvidia drivers. For Google chrome I visited the Google's page for chrome [http://www.google.com/chrome] and downloaded the .rpm file, clicked on it to install and it installed. -- <b>Swapnil Bhartiya</b><br> Editor: Muktware.com<br> Skype: No Way...its non-free. Looking for alternatives<br> Facebook: http://facebook.com/muktware<br> Twitter: http://twitter.com/muktware Google+ : https://plus.google.com/109027644713767623413/posts -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:11:46 Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
You need to tell us which exact repository you installed the nVidia drivers from and which repository you installed Google Chrome from.
I did not add the Nvidia repository in the YaST. I visited the openSUSE page [http://en.opensuse.org//SDB:NVIDIA_drivers] and used one click install method to install the nvidia drivers.
For Google chrome I visited the Google's page for chrome [http://www.google.com/chrome] and downloaded the .rpm file, clicked on it to install and it installed.
And there is the likely cause of your problem. Add the nVidia repository and the google chrome repository for your version of openSUSE (12.1). Uninstall the packages you installed and reinstall from the repositories. All should work. Alternatively, install google chrome from the openSUSE repository, then install the latest nVidia drivers from the nVidia installer that is downloaded from the nVidia site. This may be necessary if you have installed a custom kernel version that is not part of the standard distribution. I generally recompile the kernels for some local system-specific options and I install the nVidia drivers from source to make sure that the kernel module is built with the same version of gcc as the kernel, otherwise the module won't load. The catch with doing this is that you have to rebuild the kernel module every time there is a kernel update. I've also had to reinstall the drivers on occasion after a system update (esp. a KDE version update) if any x.org or openGL files are updated. These are not bugs - merely things to be aware of if you don't install from the supported repositories. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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