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, OliverI 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