Op woensdag 21 november 2018 15:55:10 CET schreef Liam Proven:
I am trying to install the proprietary drivers for an nVidia Quadro K620.
Is there anything I should know or do?
I have tried by this method:
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers
I have 2 installations on the machine, side by side. Tumbleweed and Leap 15. Both are new, clean installations.
With both, I get the same symptoms. After installation, when I reboot, I get a 1024*768 desktop on the primary monitor only. I cannot run ``nvidia-settings'' because it says there's no xorg.conf file and I am to run ``nvidia-xconfig'' as root to create one.
I do this and reboot.
Result, blank screens, flashing text cursor, nothing else.
Both distros behave identically. Both were fully updated prior to trying this.
If I use Alt-F1 to switch to vconsole 0, I can log in, remove the nvidia packages, rename /etc/X11/xorg.conf to *.old or whatever, reboot, and nouveau works again, on both monitors. Yeaaaars ago I reported a bug at NVIDIA re. nvidia-settings and xorg.conf ( which has been deprecated and replaced by xorg.conf.d ), others did too, bugs were all denied. That would not have been an issue if nvidia-settings would generate a proper xorg.conf which it hardly ever does. And, not only on openSUSE, I've seen reports for many other distros. Same for the nvidia- xconfig utility
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