On 2/5/22 11:44, mark neidorff wrote:
Long story short...computer died...replaced with a Dell XPS 8940....installed Leap 15.3 (I am not new to OpenSuse or Leap) with KDE desktop. The new PC comes with the Intel video chipset on the motherboard, and an NVidia RTX2060 PCIe graphics cads with its own 6Gb of ram. I AM NOT A GAMER, I AM NOT A GAMER, I AM NOT A GAMER, I AM NOT A GAMER! I got this system because it came with a discounted price from a reliable retailer who I have used for years. Looked up the NVIDIA drivers, downloaded and installed but can't get a graphical desktop. So, as a fallback, I want to configure the Intel video. Searched and found that there are no approved drivers for the Intel video chipset in Leap 15.3, and that is documented on the OpenSUSE website. Anyone with similar problems have a suggestion on how to proceed so that I can have a graphical KDE desktop? One application that I use a lot is KMyMoney--I really can't do without it.
Thank you for suggestion, Mark
We went down this road about 2 months ago, no? You succeeded with the nouveau driver which, if properly set up, will load with boot. What happened with that??? In your last post in Dec indicating that nouveau was working, you asked how to set up an automatic "insmod" to load the driver, but that is totally unnecessary: nouveau will be loaded with the kernel /unless/ nvidia has been installed, in which case nvidia will blacklist nouveau. Uninstalling nvidia properly removes the blacklist in /etc/modprobe.d, enabling nouveau to load as you wished. As I also posted in Dec re the nvidia driver: You don't say which guide nor the steps you took. Because the RTX 2060 on your machine is supported by the nvidia driver. So again, did you install it and f so, how specifically? What to you get with (as root): #hwinfo --gfxcard IMO it doesn't make much sense, as Felix nicely put it, to go thru heroics before being sure what you actually installed and how. If in fact you did install nvidia, it may need to be uninstalled before switching to a different device (and this very well may have been the reason nouveau did not/does not automatically load, as stated above). Furthermore, if you install another kernel from outside 15.3 you will need to manage it vis-a-vis the default 15.3 kernel, so again, before doing this be sure that you actually need to. --dg 15.3/Plasma