Perhaps no longer interesting, but I updated my Tumbleweed system and now the latest kernel and nvidia drivers are working. No need to boot with an older kernel. I know it makes no sense, but I'm convinced that the current Tumbleweed is running faster on my system. Or at least the KDE desktop seems snappier. Apps seem to be starting faster. No idea if this is actually the case... On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 8:43 AM Roger Oberholtzer <roger.oberholtzer@gmail.com> wrote:
As I wrote elsewhere in this thread, after further investigation, I think my problem is actually this:
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/543847-nvidia-gpu-i2c-timeout-err...
So now I need to see when the patch that is mentioned gets in the Tumbleweed kernel.
On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 10:25 PM Michael Hamilton <michael@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
I'm using GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER (on AMD FX-6300 ASUS M5A97 EVO).
When I've had problems in the past, sometimes a forced reinstall of the module or the entire set of nvidia installables sorted things out. From my admin notes:
- Nvidia - in the event the kernel module needs a manual rebuild: - run zypper in -f nvidia-gfxG05-kmp-default - if that's not enough force a reinstall of all nvidia repo packages zypper --no-refresh se --installed-only -r NVIDIA | awk '$1 == "i+" { print $3 }' | xargs zypper in --force where NVIDIA is the name of the nvidia repo, should result in something like: zypper in --force nvidia-computeG05 nvidia-gfxG05-kmp-default nvidia-glG05 x11-video-nvidiaG05
(There's probably a simpler way to do this.)
The last time I had any issues it was due to the usr merge. See
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Usr_merge
I still have the workaround link noted at the above page in place:
cd /usr; ln -s . /usr/usr
But I don't think the workaround should be necessary anymore.
Michael
On Tuesday 10 August 2021, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
How odd. With this combination I cannot get X to start, But with 5.12.3 for kernel and NVIDIA all is okay.
This is the last working combo.
modinfo nvidia filename: /lib/modules/5.12.3-1-default/updates/nvidia.ko
uname -a Linux acme 5.12.3-1-default #1 SMP Wed May 12 09:01:49 UTC 2021 (25d4ec7) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I'm using the gfxG05 driver for an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 12:30 PM Michael Hamilton <michael@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
On Monday 09 August 2021, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I have been wanting to update my Tumbleweed system. However, when I last tried to do so a week or so ago the NVIDIA kernel driver was out of wack.
I see that the current Tumbleweed kernel is 5.13.4, while the current NVIDIA kernel module is 5.13.2. So I guess things are not quite working again yet. Right?
I have been trying to stay with the RPM NVIDIA stuff instead of installing the .run file. Generally that makes life easier...
The main reason I want to update now is that I went to install Virtual Box. And it is available for 5.13.4, which makes sense.
I've using the nvidia "easy way" driver, I normally have no problems with minor kernel updates, and everything is working at the moment:
nvidia-gfxG05-kmp-default-470.57.02_k5.13.2_1-43.1.x86_64 kernel-default-devel-5.13.6-1.2.x86_64
(I do see recent infrequent X11 hangs with chrome-beta with GPU acceleration enabled, but that also happened with previous kernels. I've emailed nvidia; I've disabled that chrome-beta option.)
Major kernel version bumps can sometimes cause an issue, but not always. I often rely on /etc/zypp/zypp.conf multiversion.kernels to dig me out of any surprises there (even going so far as keeping specific extra kernels around as a fallback).
Michael
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