[opensuse-gnome] gdm does not start automatically
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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner@opensuse.org
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner@opensuse.org
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner@opensuse.org
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner@opensuse.org
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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner@opensuse.org
On 04/01/12 04:52, Allen wrote:
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
I know you ran mkinitrd, but try a forced re-install of the kernel from software manager. You can verify if there is a issue with the user account by creating a new (test) user login, try logging in with it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 05:03 +0000, Carl Fletcher wrote:
On 04/01/12 04:52, Allen wrote:
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
I know you ran mkinitrd, but try a forced re-install of the kernel from software manager.
You can verify if there is a issue with the user account by creating a new (test) user login, try logging in with it.
After a bit of hunting, I reinstalled xorg-x11-server. The output indicated it reset some permissions of different things (unfortunately I didn't capture the output). Upon reboot ... WooHoo A graphical desktop again! Thanks to Carl and Patrick for your help. Allen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner@opensuse.org
* Allen <allenb@iisys.com.au> [01-03-12 23:54]:
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.
from console as <user> sudo rcgdm start give password for root when requested and you will have gdm -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 00:04 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Allen <allenb@iisys.com.au> [01-03-12 23:54]:
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.
from console as <user> sudo rcgdm start give password for root when requested
and you will have gdm
Patrick, from the console, rcgdm is not found. If I login as my regular user ID and then sudo gdm start GDM does start, but network manager doesn't. I only get a normal system following root login at the console. Thanks for your idea. Allen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+owner@opensuse.org
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