On 12/16/21 5:23 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 16/12/2021 23.13, mark neidorff wrote:
Sorry for not following up for a bit. I'm trying to install NVidia drivers in my new PC. I am following the steps in the "openSUSE SDB:NVIDIA drivers" instructions. Below is what I have (tried to...in some cases..) get done and the responses from the terminal:
Is this a laptop? I ask because I see you have both nvidia and Intel hardware, and this is problematic. In this case, the instructions you need are different.
That would be "Optimus" hardware and you need Bumblebee packages instead.
Start here:
https://es.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_Optimus
If it is a desktop with both Nvidia an Intel hardware, it has been asked recently here, seek those posts. I'm not sure if they got it working.
The machine is in the original post, subject "new computer challenges", 12 Dec. It is a desktop. RTX 2060 does not support Optimus: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/technologies/optimus/supported-gpus/ Support for the RTX 2060 in the nvidia driver was added Jan 2019, the year it was released. It was re-released this year. Btw, this large card has many times over greater performance than the Intel on-board. A not-trivial part of the cost of that Dell. Sometimes the info with the card (as seen by hwinfo, etc.) is sufficient to identify the driver version, but mostly not. Being this is a recent card, it is highly likely that it is the 05 driver version that is required. IMO it is highly advisable for anyone new to openSUSE to become familiar with YaST Software Manager (which can be run in text mode, too - although the DOS interface is, well, DOS, and hence clunky). Note that hwinfo indicates that the kernel sees both graphics devices; it also shows what graphics drivers are loaded for each which would have been helpful to post (ref my previous reply) It is highly advisable to disable whichever is not being used, if at all possible - this is done in the BIOS. I'm guessing that the installation saw both and didn't know what to install other than a framebuffer; if it had seen the nvidia card only it would likely have installed the nouveau driver. Btw, I've been using nvidia cards in the machines I've built, running linux (including openSUSE), for nearly 20 years and never once had a hiccup. --dg 15.3