Mark Rubin wrote:
@Fritz: What did you do to get the "default"/i915(??) driver in your TW install? Was it something on the kernel command line in GRUB during the initial boot of the install media, a YaST/zypper install of a package after the installed TW was up and running, both, or neither?
For now, my hacked-in patch seems to be working for me on TW. I still have to see what I can do with Leap 15.5. But as per my latest #19 post at https://forums.opensuse.org/t/older-laptop-tumbleweed-nvidia-and-nouveau-dri..., I'm trying to understand what the "best" driver is out of nouveau, "default", i915, "nv",
@Mark: It was during the install process, where somewhere (bottom left??) of the installer window was a question on what video driver to select for what was recognized as an Nvidia card. I usually would go for "nouveau" . . . as back in the ancient day of '07 in PPC linux we had no other option other than "nv" . . . nouveau ofered "acceleration" and so forth, nv did not. As I'm a "jack of all trades" guy, with multi-boot systems, I'm not a "naster of SUSE" to know whether you could retro exchange your driver, via YaST . . . I would figure it could be done there or via console . . . adjusting the xorg.conf file??? I believe the "default" option is the "i915" driver listed in my lsmod. The "best driver" is the driver that works on your machine to your satisfaction. I avoided the proprietary nvidia driver option, because nvidia doesn't really keep pace with cutting edge linux like TW, and they don't seem to support their older stuff either. Nouveau was the best all-arounder . . . for the most part. I am fine with what the default driver provides on my GTX 780 card. Might be the forum guys could give some hints about how to try to change it away from nouveau, which you could always switch back to. F