On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 3:31 AM, Sudhir Anand
On Saturday, 29 July 2017 06:00:47 BST Milan Zimmermann wrote:
Hi:
I am confused about how to achieve installing the Nvidia proprietary video driver, and what packages should I actually see when / if Nvidia proprietary is correctly installed.
I was following the steps here
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers
After
zypper addrepo --refresh http://http.download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/42.3 NVIDIA zypper install-new-recommends
There were no recommends (contrary to what the page appears to indicate)
I did then remove xf86-video-nouveau from Yast. There was a question I did not take a note on, something to do with Mesa-dri-nouveau that I accepted to pull; at that point, some nvidia packages were pulled in.
Now I have a combination of nvidia and nouveau packages:
rpm -qa | grep -e "nvidia\|nouveau" x11-video-nvidiaG03-340.102-18.1.x86_64 nvidia-uvm-gfxG03-kmp-default-340.102_k4.4.76_1-18.1.x86_64 nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-default-340.102_k4.4.76_1-18.1.x86_64 libdrm_nouveau2-32bit-2.4.76-1.2.x86_64 libdrm_nouveau2-2.4.76-1.2.x86_64 Mesa-dri-nouveau-17.0.5-174.2.x86_64 nvidia-glG03-340.102-18.1.x86_64 libvdpau_nouveau-17.0.5-174.2.x86_64 nvidia-computeG03-340.102-18.1.x86_64
Is this ok? I would expect to not see any nouveau there at this point.
Also now when I do
zypper install-new-recommends The following NEW package is going to be installed: xf86-video-nouveau
1 new package to install.
I do not want that. How do I actually make this work without being forced to go back?
Thanks for any advice
Milan
Nouveau should be blacklisted as module so that it is not loaded and used. I am not sure if Nvidia rpm install script does this.
Blacklisted modules are defined in a directory /etc/modprobe.d. There should be a file called 50-blacklist.conf. There should be a couple of lines as follows:
blacklist nouveau options nouveau modeset=0
If not, just add them at the end of the file, save it and run mkinitrd command as root.
Thanks I will try that.
This is my setup. Nvidia module loads, not Nouveau.
There might be other suggestions from this list as I am not an expert in module management in Linux generally.
From your email above, the Nvidia driver version being loaded is 340.102, which is a legacy driver for older Nvidia cards.
Right. My card is "NVIDIA Corporation GK208 [GeForce GT 710]" I think the driver was suggested (but do not recall the mechanism) after I removed nouveau.
This is the same driver used on my laptop as I have an older card which is not supported by newer drivers.
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