On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 16:00, Adam Tauno Williams
I upgraded by GNOME 3.0 openSUSE 11.4 box to 12.1. That seemed to go OK. But after logging in I go to GNOME fallback rather than Shell [where Shell worked perfectly under 11.4]. Not only was it fallback - but a hideous nearly Black-n-White fallback. Anyway I figured this was because I needed to reenable and reinstall the nVidia repos. I did that - and now X is broken. Uninstalling the X nvidia packages and I can't even get back to fall back. Is there a way to 'reset' X? isax fails with the inability to load a perl module. I've tried removing/reinstalling nvidia, rebooting, etc... as well as mucking around with xorg.conf. I'd be happy to even have hideous fallback mode back.
Failure with nVidia drivers installed - X-Fail-1.txt Failure now after removing packages - X-Fail-2.txt
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 230M] (rev a2) 01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
xorg-x11-7.6-67.1.4.x86_64 Linux linux-yu4c.site 3.1.0-1.2-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 3 14:45:45 UTC 2011 (187dde0) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
The first thing that stands out to me is this: (from X-Fail-1.txt) ------------- Error: API mismatch: the NVIDIA kernel module has version 173.14.30, but this NVIDIA driver component has version 285.05.09. ------------- So, in the upgrade, you ended up with a mix of nVidia drivers and it fails (as in, new driver, old kernel module). You need to really clean out everything - the old nVidia driver and the old kernel modules - then reinstall the nVidia driver from the repos (they should be available for 12.1 now). I'd guess that once you clean up the package version mismatch, you will see a nice GUI login again. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org