Comments on: OpenSUSE 11.1 and nVidia?

By: Agnelo de la Crotche

Agnelo de la Crotche — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:00:13 +0000

Hi everyone,
I’m installing openSUSE on the newest IMac 24″ (among others). It has a Nvidia Gt 120, (in fact GeForce 9600 S). The driver from the Nvidia repository didn’t find that graphic card, so Sax only picked VESA with the maximum res 1600×1200, below the native res – 1920×1200. I downloaded the latest driver from Nvidia site and compiled it. I finally got the correct resolution after editing xorg.conf since Sax still couldn’t identify the chipset. The problem now is that I’m unable to switch to the console or log out from X (booting from runlevel 3) without getting a black screen. It seems to be an issue with the nvidia driver (and the nv driver as well), which conflicts with the Vesa framebuffer. However booting in normal vga didn’t solve the problem. Specifying the monitor type (Option “ConnectedMonitor” “DFP”) didn’t help either.
Not a big deal, I will probably boot in runlevel 5 and ignore the console (it’s an IMac after all), but still annoying because I don’t know the solution (if there is any).

By: Ghaan

Ghaan — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:34:06 +0000

@zegenie: Yeah, I found that solution on Google but I haven’t tried it. I’ll wait a little bit more until they fix Nvidia and KDE 4.2 gets even more stable I use 11.0 also at work (that was the reason to install openSUSE on my laptop instead of Debian) and now it suits my needs. Another minor annoyances with 11.1 were the crashing Compiz and Bluetooth turning on during boot (even when bluetooth daemons were disabled and autostart disabled in sysconfig). But sure I’ll move to 11.1 (I guess that will be in the time 11.2 is out)

PS: Heeeeey, I’m ex-Debianist, we’re always kinda behind!

By: zegenie

zegenie — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:39:22 +0000

Ghaan: That is the same problem I had – you should try turning up the ServerTimeout setting in /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc – I changed mine to 45, from default 15. Works a charm.

there’s always a few bits and pieces with nvidia that doesn’t work well, but with the latest series of drivers it’s gotten a lot better

By: Ghaan

Ghaan — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:35:03 +0000

Hi, a little behind the active thread, I just wanted to drop a note that problems still persist. I use Thinkpad R61, Quadro NVS 140M, updated OpenSUSE 11.1 64bit, NVIDIA official driver 180.29, KDE 4.1/4.2 and I experience the “complete freeze after logout off KDE” too. Also sometimes during logging to KDE funny images appear and disappear (Google mumbles something about graphics cache not flushed and showing the cache – sometimes I can see an image of desktop from previous session for a while, nice eh? . Furthermore, Compiz crashes after a while (not instantly) when turned on.

Aftera a few attempts to fix things and googling I installed suse 11.0 wtih kde 3.5 as it works with Nvidia drivers 177.x/173.x series.

I must say KDE 4.2 looks nice. OpenSUSE too – I used Debian stable (yes, the stable branch for several years, now I’m trying to live with OpenSUSE.

By: sebt

sebt — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:32:12 +0000

Hey Jason! Tried posting here a couple of times, but the site’s spambot keeps blocking me. I’d like to talk about the opensuse/nvidia issue (amongst other things!). Any way we can communicate?

sebt

By: Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper

Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:41:07 +0000

Hi James! If you’re talking about the slow X restart stuff, no, I’ve not. But with my adjustments I blogged about, at least nothing dies.

By: James L

James L — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:12:46 +0000

I am having the same issue, on Ubuntu 8.10 with gdm, on a Thinkpad R61, Quadro NVS. I try not to logout…

I was thinking about installing openSuSE 11.1 (I was kinda hoping that this issue would just go away, guess that wouldn’t be the case) Has anyone figured out exactly what the issue was?

xorg 7.4, linux 2.6.27-9-generic(ubuntu), nvidia driver 177.80

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By: Ben Boeckel

Ben Boeckel — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:05:28 +0000

The 4.1.85 packages are in the kde-redhat repository . The kde-testing repo has them (kde-unstable has koffice2 if you wish, but AFAIK, it’s to be avoided for now). Rex has live CD spins to kick start installation. There’s a torrent for it here: if you decide to jump. Enjoy

By: Omaha

Omaha — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:41:01 +0000

My apologies

I misread the initial posting and associated with a bad Ubuntuexperience quite some time ago ;o)