Patrick Shanahan [20.10.2017 13:21]:

* Werner Flamme [10-20-17 03:31]:

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Hi,

I'm wondering why I don't get the combination of kernel 4.13 and the proprietary nVidia driver to work.

I also have installed a 4.12 kernel from that obs repo, and the nvidia installer runs nicely and everything works fine.

When booting into a kernel 4.13, I only have a flickering startup screen - there is no graphical display, but the system obviously tries to show it, falls back to the command line, tries graphical mode again and so on. The switching is so fast that I can't even use Strg-Alt-F3 to enter a console... Only rebooting into a kernel 4.12 helps.

What am I missing?

Last thing I did was setting the default runlevel to "multi-user" instead of "graphical". I'll try to get useful messages at least. Currently I can only presume that kernel 4.13 handles the hardware in an way that is incompatible to the way 4.12 does, but I have no clue how to get around this.

Next thing is that I'm going to (re-)install the nvidia driver when running a 4.13 in text mode.

Anyone here who can help me, please? What should I look for?

I use NVidia's "run" packagevia sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-387.12.run -aqs --install-libglvnd

Crash] openSUSE Tumbleweed 20171018 Linux 4.13.6-1-default x86_64 12-thr Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 970 3193MHz Load: 0.14 Tasks: 1028 Mem: 16310/36192MB Disk: 1590/10839GB Gfx: NVIDIA Corporation GF106 [GeForce GTS 450] @ 3840x1080

remembering to reinstall the driver whenever a mesa or xorg package is upgraded or reinstalled.

and have no /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Patrick, thanks, I'm using this package as well, but I called it without parameters. I'll try it with those. I'd love to use the TW drivers from the repo (announced by Stefan in August), but since I still have a Leap 42.3 with only the newer kernel, I'm stuck between the worlds... The TW package does not run for me, there was (and is) some hassle with Mesa. Werner --

Ivan, thanks for your help, but I have no problems using kernel 4.12. Only the 4.13 kernels do bad things with my host ;) Werner Ivan Linty [20.10.2017 14:40]:

Hi

I suspect that kernel 4.12 e 4.13. has big problems with graphics subsystem! My system opensuse tumbleweed after kernel update presents sudden randomly complete system crash! The only solution is hard reboot! My gpu in Intel i915. A fix is to disable hardware accelleration and another fix is to revert to kernel 4.9. I have found threads also in arch mailing list about that, but for now there isn't solution: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/55629 So I suggest you to revert to kernel 4.9 (I have installed kernel-pf)

Kind Regards

2017-10-20 14:17 GMT+02:00 Werner Flamme :

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Patrick Shanahan [20.10.2017 13:21]:

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* Werner Flamme [10-20-17 03:31]:

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Hi,

I'm wondering why I don't get the combination of kernel 4.13 and the proprietary nVidia driver to work.

I also have installed a 4.12 kernel from that obs repo, and the nvidia installer runs nicely and everything works fine.

When booting into a kernel 4.13, I only have a flickering startup screen - there is no graphical display, but the system obviously tries to show it, falls back to the command line, tries graphical mode again and so on. The switching is so fast that I can't even use Strg-Alt-F3 to enter a console... Only rebooting into a kernel 4.12 helps.

What am I missing?

Last thing I did was setting the default runlevel to "multi-user" instead of "graphical". I'll try to get useful messages at least. Currently I can only presume that kernel 4.13 handles the hardware in an way that is incompatible to the way 4.12 does, but I have no clue how to get around this.

Next thing is that I'm going to (re-)install the nvidia driver when running a 4.13 in text mode.

Anyone here who can help me, please? What should I look for?

I use NVidia's "run" packagevia sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-387.12.run -aqs --install-libglvnd

Crash] openSUSE Tumbleweed 20171018 Linux 4.13.6-1-default x86_64 12-thr Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 970 3193MHz Load: 0.14 Tasks: 1028 Mem: 16310/36192MB Disk: 1590/10839GB Gfx: NVIDIA Corporation GF106 [GeForce GTS 450] @ 3840x1080

remembering to reinstall the driver whenever a mesa or xorg package is upgraded or reinstalled.

and have no /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Patrick, thanks, I'm using this package as well, but I called it without parameters. I'll try it with those.

I'd love to use the TW drivers from the repo (announced by Stefan in August), but since I still have a Leap 42.3 with only the newer kernel, I'm stuck between the worlds... The TW package does not run for me, there was (and is) some hassle with Mesa.

Werner

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