Op dinsdag 15 maart 2016 22:30:43 CET schreef Basil Chupin:
On 15/03/16 20:49, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-03-15 05:28, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 15/03/16 00:44, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-03-14 14:28, Basil Chupin wrote:
> I would experiment with the driver, if I knew how to revert without > much pain to nouveau, i.e a working system.
When you want the proprietary driver, blacklist 'nouveau', when you want nouveau, un-blacklist it. Rebuild initrd.
Strange -- I have never done this (rebuilding initrd). I just compile/install the driver and reboot.
If you don't, the initrds still contains the nouveau module, it gets loaded, and nvidia module refuses to load. And viceversa.
You have to compile the nVidia driver to work with the kernel you are using and when you go to compile it with the nouveau driver installed you get an error message and the nVidia driver will NOT compile until the nouveau driver is removed.
Yes, I did that, nvidia driver loaded fine, tested startx, I rebooted, and it failed to load. Nouveau was loaded again. I checked, run mkinird, rebooted, and it was ok, nividia.
I use the kernel in the .../Kernel:/stable/standard repository and have to compile the driver every time the kernel is upgraded -- sometimes on a daily basis. I don't run mkinitrd and I don't have any problems with compiling the driver.
Because you were not running nouveau the previous time, thus no need to remove it again.
It is the first time, when you do the switch, that you have to do all those things.
Jesus, Carlos, let's look at what has been written and then make comments shall we?
Someone wrote:
"When you want the proprietary driver, blacklist 'nouveau', when you want nouveau, un-blacklist it. Rebuild initrd."
To which I replied:
"Strange -- I have never done this (rebuilding initrd). I just compile/install the driver and reboot."
Now, is there anything clearer and articulate than what I wrote in the above paragraph: "I just compile/install the driver and reboot"?
"But", you say, "what about the nouveau driver?" to which I already said that the nVidia driver will not compile until the bloody thing is removed!
So what is left? "I just compile/install the driver and reboot."
Something still missing in the translation? Then please let me know.
BC
1. The nvidia driver compile doesn't care whether nouveau or whatever is loaded. The installer does, but this can be overruled with options, like the --no-nouveau-check, --no-x-check. 2. If nouveau is loaded per initrd, one needs to rebuild the initrd after blacklisting nouveau. Whether it is depends on previously taken actions where reconfiguring / rebuilding initrd was involved. -- Gertjan Lettink, a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Forums Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org