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. 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. This is the same driver used on my laptop as I have an older card which is not supported by newer drivers.

Regards. -- Sudhir Anand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

I have a similar issue. I upgraded my 42.2 to 42.3 by switching the repos (including the nvidia repo) from 42.2 to 42.3 and doing zypper dup. I had to agree to some Adobe stuff and to install nouveau (otherwise zypper would just end). Now, I have nvidia and nouveau packages installed, but there seem to be no nvidia modules. At least I can not modprobe nvidia. I blacklisted nouveau in /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf nad did mkinitrd as suggested here. Still, neither nvidia nor nouveau get loaded and Plasma complains about missing OpenGL2... What ca I do? Reinstall the nvidia drivers from the repo to get the module build? Cheers, Michael Am 29.07.2017 um 07:00 schrieb Milan Zimmermann:

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

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