Date: Mon, 15 May 2023 11:35:19 From: Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> To: oS-EN <users@lists.opensuse.org> Subject: Re: openSUSE 15.4 boots to a blank screen
On 2023-05-13 07:49, Paul Neuwirth via openSUSE Users wrote:
Hello,
I Installed a new video card (same model is running on another computer using openSUSE Leap 15.4 with same proprietary drivers just fine). Since then the computer boots to a blank screen. Using legacy grub2 to boot (menu displayed fine, first lines of initrd are displayed, then screen goes blank). Tried booting using nomodesset, uninstalled plymouth, rebuilt initrd, reinstalled bootloader no changes. I can start the X-Server via SSH, then screens work. I can also switch to other ttys then, showing the console. Probably a serial console would work also. ;-)
video card is a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti nvidia drivers (nvidia-video-G06-525.116.04-lp154.8.1.x86_64) load fine, dmesg (last thing I did was start the X server) can be found here: https://www.swabian.net/extern/opensuse/dmesg_blankscreen.txt
current cmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.14.21-150400.24.63-default root=UUID=406791e3-4103-4da5-8235-aa35ed5be74c nosplash resume=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-36c81f660cfd00400232bc7c603abcd39-part4 splash=nosplash debug showopts elevator=cfq mitigations=auto nomodeset
what do I miss? only significant difference to other pc (despite of other hardware (but identical video card)) is, that that one uses efi not legacy boot.
Try swapping the cards. yea, I did that originally. But the displays were completely blank, not even BIOS was displayed, and no sign of a video card in openSUSE (lspci even didn't list it) - then I swapped the cards, and both work. It's the same card, but rebranded by zotac, some different cooling, i don't know anything different, besides the newly bought one (zotac) has an older firmware (that is the one working fine on the other pc). But couldn't find a way to update the firmware without windows, which I do not have installed on any of those pcs, only in a vm. Also the zotac branded one, does not fit fully in the case of the pc. But also ordered another video card, a NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 - maybe
On Monday 2023-05-15 11:35, Carlos E. R. wrote: that will work.
-- Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)