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Testing out OpenSUSE 12.2 w/Tumbleweed : problem installing Nvidia Proprietary Driver Dec 12th 2012, 23:58 Hi folks, Recently I installed OpenSUSE 12.2 and upgrade (all packages) to the Tumbleweed repositories. Everything was going great till I started following the SDB:Nvidia wiki. I thought I'll just follow the instructions to the letter: kill nouveau off, download the latest Nivdia 310.xx driver installer binary and reboot - all ready to install the nvidia blob from a TTY console... Boy was I wrong!! I've run into that old chestnut that I can't get systemd to get to a ***** console prompt!! It keeps hanging during the boot process. I've left it for hours and yet still no joy... I've thrown various boot options at the problem (e.g. different run-levels, splash on/off, quiet on/off, vga, modeset and nomodeset). I tried re-enabling the nouveau graphics driver. Unfortunately I can't seem to get this fully working - since I removed it from the kernel initrd RAM image - it appears to be "a bit broken". :'( I should add I'm booting OpenSUSE in a massive mutli-boot array of distros on a GPT formatted disk. So I can tinker with the filesystem very easily and change the (Grub-2) options. But running any actual OpenSUSE-specific configuration utilities would required a chroot from the liveDVD/USB. Any thoughts?? I come from a Gentoo/ARCH kind of mindset - why reinstall when you can spend hours learning how to fix a problem you caused (by doing some dumb)??!! lol! Thanks bob

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