855404 – Nvidia driver shows only a white screen

Bug 855404 - Nvidia driver shows only a white screen

Summary: Nvidia driver shows only a white screen

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 808319

Alias:	None

Product:	openSUSE 13.1
Classification:	openSUSE
Component:	X11 3rd Party Driver (show other bugs)
Version:	Final
Hardware:	x86-64 openSUSE 13.1

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Major (vote)
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Assignee:	E-mail List
QA Contact:	Stefan Dirsch

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Reported:	2013-12-13 16:26 UTC by Rick Salevsky
Modified:	2013-12-16 07:48 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Rick Salevsky 2013-12-13 16:26:01 UTC

After installing the nvidia driver on openSuse 13.1 the screen shows only a white screen.

The xsession-errors log prints that the user has no access to /dev/nvidia0.

A simple workaround is to add the user to the video group.

Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2013-12-16 07:48:29 UTC

breakage in systemd ..

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 808319 ***