Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (963 mails)

[Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 17:34 -0800, michael getachew wrote:
> --- On Wed, 11/10/10, Javier Llorente <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > message is shown too quickly for me to see. And
>
> you could do :
> startx >> x11log
>
> where x11log is where the output of startx is going to be redirected. you 
> then can open the file x11log(or whatever you have called it) and see what 
> the error is.

I have done this. It was not informative. At least not to me. Based on
other info I have received, perhaps the issue is in KDE itself. Makes
sense as only KDE refuses to start.

> > > would try 11.4 to see how that goes. At least 11.4
> > will run the nouveau
> > > driver and use the proper screen resolution. 11.3
> > insists on the fbdev
>
> just out of being curious why not use the nvidia driver from their website 
> ?why nouveau?

I start with a stock 11.4 install. That sets up the nouveau driver for
all nvidia cards. There is no 11.4 nvidia driver RPM from suse, since
this is still a milestone release. So I have downloaded and installed it
myself. That seems to have worked fine. 

The problem is that this driver now freezes the system. This is worse
than the problem with the new nvidia driver on 11.3 with the current
11.3 kernel. So, my hope for a step forward has in fact been a step
backwards.

I did skip one step in the SUSE install notes for the nvidia driver,
which states:

# recreate initrd without KMS, if the use of KMS is enabled in initrd
 if grep -q NO_KMS_IN_INITRD=\"no\" /etc/sysconfig/kernel; then
   sed -i 's/NO_KMS_IN_INITRD.*/NO_KMS_IN_INITRD="yes"/g' /etc/sysconfig/kernel
   mkinitrd
 fi

This was listed for 11.3. I do not know it is needed for 11.4. Also, I
am a bit unsure what the effects of this really are. That is, how will
this change effect the running system?

IIRC, in my 11.4 system, NO_KMS_IN_INITRD=no . Or maybe I remember wrong
as this is a double negative (saying no to not doing something - why do
us programmers do these things?). I will have to recheck.

I guess I will have to subscribe to the Factory list if I want to pursue
this activity.

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer

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