It's been years since I installed the Nvidia driver on siduction. I have not had a problem with Mesa and up to now have been satisfied with it.
Question is: Are the manual directions (
https://manual.siduction.org/gpu#nvidia ) still correct? Or have they been modified/simplified since then?
It seems that this older AMD processor and the Mesa graphics are causing the login screen to lock up, and, the only way around it is to use the proprietary Nvidia driver.
My machine:
System: Host: M2N-SLI Kernel: 4.15.7-towo.1-siduction-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.12.2 Distro: siduction 18.1.0 Patience - kde - (201712310029)
Machine: Device: desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M2N-SLI v: 1.XX serial: N/A
BIOS: Phoenix v: ASUS M2N SLI 0802 date: 04/16/2008
CPU: Dual core AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB
clock speeds: max: 2600 MHz 1: 1800 MHz 2: 1800 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA G94 [GeForce 9600 GT]
Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 )
drivers: nouveau (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz
OpenGL: renderer: NV94 version: 3.3 Mesa 17.3.6
The bug wasn't present when I installed patience KDE, but appeared after the large update. I wish I kept track of the version numbers of Mesa along the way.
I know there are others who are having problems with this bug, I filed an addendum to an openSUSE Bugzilla asking the kernel folks to look into it, without response. Anyone else have their login screen lock up after hitting enter?