Hello, In the Message; Subject : Re: nvidia g05 or nouveau in TW Live/Install? Message-ID : <20240831205523.9996dbf907b43c515281b2a3@trixtar.org> Date & Time: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 20:55:23 -0400 [BF] == bent fender <slowroller@trixtar.org> has written: BF> Sat, 31 Aug 2024 12:44:11 +0900 BF> Masaru Nomiya <nomiya@lake.dti.ne.jp> : [...] MN> > Ben, please show ths resuls of; BF> Thanks for chiming in :-) Thanks. BF> $ inxi -b [...] BF> Device-1: NVIDIA GK107 [GeForce GT 640] driver: N/A BF> Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.12 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.2 BF> driver: X: loaded: nouveau,vesa unloaded: fbdev,modesetting failed: nv BF> gpu: N/A resolution: 1920x1080 Certainly, "fbdev,modesetting failed: nv gpu: N/A resolution: 1920x1080" is dubious. [...] BF> I also DL'd and burned BF> openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-Snapshot20240829-Media.iso BF> openSUSE-Tumbleweed-KDE-Live-x86_64-Snapshot20240829-Media.iso BF> openSUSE-Tumbleweed-NET-x86_64-Snapshot20240829-Media.iso BF> checksums all good, each burn verified no errors I see. BF> Every way I could try behaved essentially the same: after a brief BF> command line run the HDMI symb olappears and after that nothing but a BF> blank screen. If I select some degrading options 'like' BF> F3 console 1920x1080 BF> F5 kernekl safe setting or NOACPI BF> F6 driver NO BF> then I might get graphic sliders showing BF> "Loading basic drivers..." etc BF> and THAT folowed by a blank black screen BF> One one run (I think it might have been on the installed system and BF> not one of the DVD's) I got a last command line read something like BF> "start plymouth....". Someone already accused plymouth of being THE BF> real culprit. BF> A questions I cannot resist: BF> why try for a GUI *at all* for things like BF> rescue BF> net install BF> check media BF> boot linux system BF> ????? BF> It would be much smarter to promt the user to insert a blank USB stick BF> at the beginning that will be formatted fat and unto which the entire BF> startup will be written! In addition there should be a back button at BF> every 'station' with screen shots saved out to the same place. My 2 BF> cents. This whole horror-show has been going on since March of last BF> spring! First, we need to solve nvidia's problem. Please show the results of; 1. $ ls -l /etx/X11/xorg.conf.d/ or # ls -l /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ 2. nv.log of; # nvidia-bug-report.sh > /tmp/nv.log 2>&1 Best Regards. --- ┏━━┓彡 Masaru Nomiya mail-to: nomiya @ lake.dti.ne.jp ┃＼／彡 ┗━━┛ "Japan was the future but it's stuck in the past" -- Rupert Wingfield-Hayes (BBC) --