On 06/08/2014 11:00 PM, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Sun, 08 Jun 2014 22:19:09 -0400 Alain Leblanc wrote:
I had a working installation of opensuse 13.1 until last night's update. Since then the X server wont't start. If I run startx from the command line in superuser mode I get a message about a mismatch, where the nvidia driver component has version 304.121 while the nvidia kernel module has version 304.119. The message preceding the mismatch message indicates "Loading extension GLX". All the opensuse repos are for version 13.1. Anyone has any idea how to proceed from here?
Hi Alain,
A "working installation" can mean different things. My guess is you have been running the manually installed nVidia driver and last night's updates (applied through the package manager) have broken that installation.
If you read the documentation that comes with the nVidia manual installer, you'll know that it has the ability to completely reverse the manual installation. You can then add and enable the nVidia rpm repository and use that to install the driver. The benefit of this approach is the installation will no longer be hidden from the package management system and the driver will be automatically updated during future updates if it is needed.
Relevant links here: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA
hth & regards,
Carl Thanks Carl,
In the end all I had to do was download the file NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.119.run.run from the NVIDIA web site and run it. By "working installation" I meant installed from the official DVD, only added the packman repo, did all the updates as they came. So I'm a bit surprised that this problem would show up on my machine and not others. Or maybe it's just that everyone else figured it out on their own :) Thanks again, a -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org