On 06/09/2014 09:55 AM, Dylan wrote:
On 09/06/14 07:43, Gustav Degreef wrote:
I had problems with x due to the most recent updates. I did "zypper up" and it complained of problems with the nvidia rpm's (from the suse repo). After the update, my desktop's resolution was completely messed up and I had huge icons. The system was no longer using the nvidia drivers. The yast package manager showed six nvidia rpms (some of which were not correct). I removed ALL of the nvidia rpms, rebooted the system and then the desktop resolution returned to normal. I then selected only the two appropriate drivers (g02) for my card, rebooted. After the second reboot the system was now using the drivers and the desktop was back to normal. First time anything like this happened to me. I only use the suse nvidia rpm's and never install with packages from the nvidia site. Gustav
I had this problem with one machine, and completely non-functional graphics on another. There seems to be an additional package in the latest update: nvidia-uvm-gfxG0x-kmp-<kernel-flavour>.
On the machine with incorrect resolution, I did basically the same (remove all except the latest G03 packages) and had to install the uvm package. This resulted in the kernel being *downgraded* to 3.11.6.
On the machine with no graphics at all, I had to taboo the uvm package to get a graphical display - package nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop (version 331.79_k3.11.6_4-26.1) installs fine without it and the kernel has stayed at version 3.11.10-11.1 - I get a boot warning that the uvm module is not found, but the nvidia driver loads nonetheless.
The machines have different graphics adaptors, which presumably accounts for the differing behaviour/requirements, and both _require_ the proprietary drivers (rather than nouveau) because we run graphics software which uses CUDA.
I am on a different machine using the nouveau driver. The affected machine has the 13.1 installation (with the nvidia drivers) . But it is now running 12.3 (off a different partition) so I can not give precise info. But perhaps this additional info is of use. I only needed nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop and the x11-nvidia rpm to get the desktop to work properly. The update that messed up x installed nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop, nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-default, the x11 rpm plus another gfxg02 rpm (don't remember the name). It also installed the same four gfxG03 rpm's - a total of 8 nvidia rpm's (not six as I had previously said) - very odd indeed. After I removed ALL of the nvidia rpms and then I re-installed the correct gfxg02-desktop and the x11nvidia packages the kernel was not downgraded. I did not look very carefully about the error messages after the update, but it said something to the effect that correct symlinks had not been properly set. I think there was a bug somewhere in this last update. Gustav.
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