Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (57 mails)

[Allen <allenb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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