On Monday, 29 May 2017 08:35:21 BST Michael Born wrote:
Thank you all for your comments.
I did not install any Nvidia stuff for my AMD card. The ACPI/BIOS errors of my MSI Z77 mainboard are there for many years - I don't know why it is so hard for them to write a BIOS that has no wrong parameters in it... But, I don't think that is my problem. The messages have been there forever.
I think your Nvidia comments are helpful. Although, I use the open source amdgpu+MESA drivers, I installed the OpenCL driver from the binary amdgpu-PRO package with: ./amdgpu-pro-install --compute
Maybe that messed with my initrd. I will check that tonight when I'm back home.
But, what could prevent the VESA fall-back driver to kick in?
Cheers, Michael
I am not an expert and will give my workaround and thoughts. During the boot process, a graphical driver has been registered to load. For a number of reasons, the driver is not loading successfully, resulting in the blank screen you are experiencing and possibly preventing the loading of vesa or any other driver. One solution is to uninstall all AMD or any other third party drivers by booting into runlevel 3, which is the level before graphical login and start of xserver. Once the terminal screen appears, uninstall the third party drivers. As I have no experience of AMD, I cannot advise on the exact steps to do this. Perhaps other members of this list can advise. Then run mkinitrd and reboot. If no other graphical drivers are available, xserver should start with vesa or framebuffer driver. If all else fails, a re-install might be an easier solution. On my computers there are two installations of Opensuse and both are available on grub boot manager. The home directory is on a separate partition and accessible to both. On my laptop, one partition has TW, one Leap 42.2 and the third one is the dark side (windows). I can reboot into the previous working version to carry on working and repair the version which is not working. If there are issues with graphical login (and there have been recently) or anything else and a broken system cannot be rectified, I find a re-install is an easier solution. Regards. -- Sudhir Anand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org