On Wednesday, June 29 2011, 20:15:53 Paul Hands wrote:
Hi all,
I just rebuilt a machine which has been happily running SuSE 11.4 and various versions of the NVidia proprietary drivers.
Running with the version of KDE installed by default from the distro DVD (4.6.0?), I can no longer log in. The progress bar gets to about 80% and then just sits there. If I leave it long enough, the screen saver cuts in, and them when reawakened, I get a black screen with the cursor, and the cursor responds to mouse moves, but nothing else. I've tried other versions of KDE, right up to Trunk, but no change. I've also tried different versions of the NVidia driver (260, 270, 275), but none let me log in. I can log into ICEWM just fine.
The annoying thing is that the machine hardware is the same except that I added another SATA disk, and this all worked just fine before. I've done complete reformat & reinstall...no help. I've tried a fresh user in case kde config files are wrong....no change. Login does work with the Nouveau driver, but that's so unstable, it's not usable yet.
Anyone any ideas/advice?
You are presumably being bitten by this bug: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=160115 Affects a few older NVidia GPUs when using the latest driver. You can check by temporarily turning off compositing in the X server, e.g. by creating a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-extensions.conf containing Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "off" EndSection If that fixes the freezing, you should stick with the older driver version 260.19.44 for the time being until NVidia gets this fixed. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org