On 10/31/2013 10:26 AM, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
Hello,
After a failed attempt to install the manufacturer's nvidia driver,
my system (Fedora 19, with both Gnome and KDE, on a Lenovo ThinkPad
T430) does not reach the graphical login screen any more, but instead
ends up in a white screen with a frowning computer cartoon and the
message
"Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem occurred and the system
can't recover. Please contact a system administrator."
I can still do Ctrl-Alt-F2 to log into text mode. When I try startx,
I get an empty screen with white or black background and a mouse
cursor, extending over my two screens (laptop and external). When I
try startkde it says:
$DISPLAY is not set or cannot connect to X server.
The only error in /var/etc/X11.0.log is:
Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0)
In /var/log/messages, there are a bunch of lines like (I'm typing by
hand):
gnome-session[2658]: (gnome-shell:2949): Cogl-WARNING **:
./driver/gl/cogl-framebuffer-gl.c:561: GL error (1282): Invalid operation
Could not find a solution on Google.
I already reinstalled a bunch of packages, including cogl, gdm,
gnome-shell, @kde-desktop, xorg-x11-drv-nouveau, kernel, but no change.
Any advice? Thanks!
Best,
Oliver
I remember running into this problem over time with Fedora 16,18 and
19 so did a fresh install using the standard nouveau driver, then when
the system was working, followed the instructions on the Fedora page
to install the nvidia driver.
Apart from a slightly smoother movement of windows and terminals, and
I usually have quite several open at once, I have seen no real benefit
from the nvidia video driver.
I believe nvidia has released helpful code to the nouveau devs but have
no knowledge on the benefits or other.
Roger
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