On 02/14/2012 07:57 AM, Dennis Gallien wrote:
On Monday, February 13, 2012 11:47 PM Alex Angerhofer wrote:
Hi List,
I have been running 12.1 on 64 bit for a while. My graphics card is a GeForce GTX470 and I have been using the nouveau driver without any problems for months.
The other day I tried to install the nvidia driver with the result that the plasma desktop became unstable (bombs to black screen after a while). I tried a couple of the older drivers as well with the same symptoms.
I have since tried to recover from this situation and revert back to the nouveau driver, however, with limited success. I was able to uninstall the nvidia driver and remove the blacklisting for nouveau. I also had to remove my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file in order to get the X server to come back up but it does so in 1280x1024 instead of 1920x1080 which is my native screen resolution. Basically, the screen looks like what comes up in failsafe mode.
What am I missing? How do I get the higher resolution back? Is there a way to rerun the hardware test scripts that determine the correct settings upon an initial install? I would hate to have to reinstall from scratch.
Thanks in advance for any pointers, Alex.
Are you sure that nouveau is actually being loaded and used? - you may be using vesa (lsmod | grep nouveau). Have you checked /var/log/Xorg.0.log? The X server will look for all potential drivers and load them, select the one it thinks it should use, unload the others, and then read the monitor's EDID for the default resolution which it will use unless instructed otherwise, and report the resolution chosen to the log. This is where to start.
Hi Dennis, thanks for the reply. According to "Display info" under "My Computer" the 2D driver chosen is "nouveau" but I will double-check when I get back home later today. Best regards, Alex. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org