On Friday, 22 September 2023 7:21:45 AM ACST Patrick Headley wrote:
I'm not an OpenSuSE employee but I went through the described situation many times.
This sounds like a Linux thing. If you use Nvidia proprietary drivers you have to uninstall them before performing certain kernel updates. If you performed kernel updates, like performing a major version upgrade and then get the issues you are describing you can typically use the terminal to do a 'Sudo Zypper Remove Nvidia*'. Reboot and use the terminal version of Yast to reinstall the proprietary drivers. One more reboot and you should be back in business. If not, look up the documentation on blacklisting the Nouveau drivers.
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Or you do it the "easy" way. 0. Blacklist Nouveau (I started with 0 because I added this last and couldn't be bothered renumbering the rest...). 1. Install DKMS. 2. Install the drivers using Nvidia's installer 3. Drivers are automatically rebuilt using DKMS when a new kernel is booted, provided that the current driver version is compatible with the new kernel (and that hasn't broken for some time). I've been doing it this way for years. Yes, when a new driver is released it has to be installed manually again (if you want/need to update), but I haven't had a failure to boot a graphical desktop for at least a couple of years. Wayland is even usable on Nvidia with KDE now (it just messes up the font sizes relative to X11, but that's easily tweaked). (And yes, I've tried quite a few times over the years installing the drivers using zypper and the distro packages but I've never gotten anything but a black screen doing it that way). -- ================================================================================================================== Rodney Baker rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ==================================================================================================================
On 9/21/23 10:27 AM, Jogchum Reitsma wrote:
Hi,
My son's system fails to get into a graphical environment after the zypper dup --no-allow-vendor-change issued yesterday (to TW 20230917, kernel 6.5.3.-1-default). Trying to issue startx, the Xorg.0.login his home environment says "Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module¨.
Is something wrong with this snapshot?
(We thought about doing a snapper rollback, but snapper says snapper is not configured - isn't that done automagically when installing TW? It is configured in my own system, and I can't remember having done that myself.)
Thanks again for any suggestions!
regards, Jogchum