# Window system fails to start (black screen) after Installing Tesla driver on Opensuse Leap 42.2 **URL:** \ **Category:** Linux\ **Created:** [September 21, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/window-system-fails-to-start-black-screen-after-installing-tesla-driver-on-opensuse-leap-42-2/53609 "2017-09-21T15:02:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![srihari83](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@srihari83](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/srihari83)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/window-system-fails-to-start-black-screen-after-installing-tesla-driver-on-opensuse-leap-42-2/53609/1 "2017-09-21T15:02:23Z")
Hi All, We installed the Nvidia driver version 384.66 for a Tesla K80 card on OpenSUSE 42.2 from the downloaded rpm from the official site. Display is supposed to with with an Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller. After installing the Nvidia driver, the SDDM login screen & the window system fails to launch. Also, nvidia-smi returns: " NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running. " Windows system launches & works fine after uninstalling the Nvidia driver… Anyone knows how to fix this problem? ---
**Author:** ![srihari83](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@srihari83](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/srihari83)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/window-system-fails-to-start-black-screen-after-installing-tesla-driver-on-opensuse-leap-42-2/53609/2 "2017-09-21T18:31:15Z")
I have attached the bug report log file generated by the nvidia-bug-report.sh.. > **[Dropbox - Error - Simplify your life](https://www.dropbox.com/s/e3p12zdam65f969/nvidia-bug-report.log.gz?dl=0)** ---
**Author:** ![sandipt](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/sandipt/32/14043_2.png) [@sandipt](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/sandipt)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 8:51am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/window-system-fails-to-start-black-screen-after-installing-tesla-driver-on-opensuse-leap-42-2/53609/3 "2017-09-22T08:51:36Z")
Please test with 384.90 driver [Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver | 384.90 | Linux 64-bit | NVIDIA](http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/123918/en-us) ---
**Author:** ![srihari83](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@srihari83](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/srihari83)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 12:19pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/window-system-fails-to-start-black-screen-after-installing-tesla-driver-on-opensuse-leap-42-2/53609/4 "2017-09-22T12:19:34Z")
Sorry, but the installation of this driver fails.. I’ve attached a snapshot of the error message below. It says "Unable to load kernel module ‘nvidia.ko’ " [](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/st3r8010iej94z8/IMG_20170922_140244.jpg?dl=0)[External Media](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/st3r8010iej94z8/IMG_20170922_140244.jpg?dl=0 "Media hosted on another site. Click to open in a new tab.") Now that there is no nvidia driver installed, the window system works fine.. but running the command ‘startx – -logverbose 6’ still gives an error saved in this \*.txt file > **[Dropbox - Error - Simplify your life](https://www.dropbox.com/s/qtkliw3x4tfqcz1/startx_error_msg.txt?dl=0)** We bought this quite expensive Tesla card but have not yet been able to put it to use since months! Something as mundane as installing a driver on it seems such a painful task.. We do not want our display/window system to be run by the Tesla card, there is an integrated Intel graphics card on the motherboard for video/display.. this is supposed to be just for computation. Finding relevant info on this problem is also very hard! ---
**Author:** ![generix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/generix/32/16024_2.png) [@generix](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/generix)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 11:57am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/window-system-fails-to-start-black-screen-after-installing-tesla-driver-on-opensuse-leap-42-2/53609/5 "2017-09-23T11:57:47Z")
Taken a look at the logs, there are underlying kernel problems regarding pci i/o so the nvidia driver failed to initialize correctly. Didn’t look at the system specs but I think you should try a bios update and a more recent kernel.