On 8/29/22 17:22, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* DennisG <dwgallien@gmail.com> [08-29-22 16:29]:
On 8/28/22 02:07, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
On 28.08.2022 01:47, DennisG wrote:
About a month ago updates appeared in the Nvidia repository (Leap 15.3) for the G04 group of driver files, to go from 390.151-lp.153.21.1 to 390.154-lp.153.16.1.
But updating throws a dependency error for kernel-default-devel-5.3.18-57, which is old (probably about mid-March) and is not even in the update repository. I'm planning to do the 15.4 upgrade shortly, and want this cleared up beforehand.
Ideas? Who to ask?
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1202116 Thanks, Andrei for helping out - on both the 15.3 and 15.4 issues. (I don't know why I didn't find it on bugzilla - must be /really/ getting old.)
Re the prev suggestion to just upgrade to 15.4, it is not quite that simple. Anyone with this problem and upgrading with dvd media (as is my practice) without also enabling the update repo's simultaneously, will find that the drivers will update but then fail to load at runtime. IME, complex kernel dependency issues like this one are best carefully researched before pulling the upgrade trigger. you mean like an initial install, booting into text mode and installing appropriate video drivers and proceeding into graphical.target. seems quite convoluted and difficult. but ...
might also be a normal action.
IF I understand you correctly . . . while in graphical upgrade mode you can now add/update 3rd-party repositories. For a long time that wasn't possible, but it is now. And IIRC the user is also offered the option of adding the update repo's at this time, but some users defer that to a second step after vanilla upgrade. I always now both add the new nvidia repo and enable all the update repo's, which is easy and typically goes smoothly. But in this particular case, had I done the 15.4 upgrade a month ago (before the 15.4 fix) as just described, the upgrade would have succeeded but at reboot the drivers would not have loaded. And IIRC, Plasma is not supported by nouveau, which means I would have been left using the fbdev driver. To be fair though, this kind of issue has only bit me with 3rd-party sw or repo's. --dg 15.3/Plasma