On 03/02/18 00:47, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
On 2018-02-02 06:18, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 31/01/18 14:09, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 31/01/18 02:25, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2018-01-30 at 16:00 +0100, Per Jessen wrote: > >> Carlos E. R. wrote: >> >>> Just run startx in runlevel 3 and as root. >> Okay, that gave me the KDE GUI, as root, without logging in. > Then that means that the graphics driver is not the issue. It is the > display manager. That is at least progress. Not sure what to try next though. Maybe I should just have done a re-install, would have easily fixed the problem by now :-( Which is why I now always do a fresh install and not an upgrade -- too much f*-around otherwise. I have been doing upgrades for two decades, and I still find it
On 2018-01-31 02:50, Basil Chupin wrote: preferable :-) Horses for courses. I'll stay with clean installs -- no baggage to carry over to the new version. No time lost having to decide what else to install besides the default list, and what to configure and how. No fstab editing, network, hosts, dns server, postfix, amavis, mysql, apache... :-)
BTW, I saw that you mentioned that the Nvidia driver was compiled - but
was 'mkinitrd' run after the compilation? The nvidia driver is not loaded from initrd, but much later. And in the rpm case, the compilation happens during installation.
Anyway, his issue is not related to the driver, as startx works fine, he gets a desktop. The SUBJECT header says it all -- and I get this (black screen) when I reboot after compiling the nVidia driver and forgetting to run mkinitrd. Yes, but the driver was working perfectly. The software was ordering the display to be black :-P
It was the display manager which failed.
No need to compile and run mkinitrd if driver comes in an rpm, besides :-)
* Carlos E. R.
[02-02-18 06:34]: there is no need to run mkinitrd if installing the NVI...run package either if you: "sh NV...run -aqs --install-libglvnd"
There is no 'libglvnd' in Leap 42.3. In TW there is 'libglvnd' but I had read in apost either here or in opensuse not that long ago that it was not a requirement to use "...--install-libglvnd". When one looks at '/libglvnd' it only contains a 'Readme.md' file. Nevertheless, I shall use what you suggest to see what difference it makes to my 'normal' way of compiling the nVidia driver :-). <A little time later...> Well, sorry Patrick, but I see no difference between using or not using '--install-libglvnd'. And regarding running 'mkinitrd' after compiling the driver, again, I read, in this list I think, the need to do this to ensure that the driver was picked up by the kernel. Now, whoever wrote that may have been just flapping his ears, I don't know, but it don't hurt to run 'mkinitrd' just to be on the safe side :-). BC -- Always be nice to people on your way up -- you'll see the same people on your way down. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org