mark neidorff composed on 2022-02-05 11:44 (UTC-0500):
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.
Remove the NVidia card and the Intel should work automatically - if it's not too new. GPUs have been selling at high prices lately, so you could in effect get a nice rebate by selling on eBay after your warranty expires. You don't need to install drivers for Intel because the Intel is automatically supported, unless the model is too new, in which case you may need a newer kernel from https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/x86_64/ or even https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD:/Backport/standard/x... Before trying these heroics, check in the BIOS to see if there's an option to prefer the Intel IGP over the PCIe NVidia. Which Intel IGP and CPU do you have? /sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -A3 VGA lscpu | grep 'l name' -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata
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
On 2/5/22 13:24, DennisG wrote:
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
I received a private email from OP, with the following info as had been requested by Felix and myself . . . ------------- #lspci 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation RocketLake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 750] [8086:4c8a] (rev 04) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:09c5] Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915 -- 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 Rev. A] [10de:1f08] (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:86f0] Kernel modules: nouveau 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:2600] (rev 21) #hwinfo --gfxcard 12: PCI 200.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.386] Unique ID: B35A.k2+NzcJvY64 Parent ID: vSkL.0GHwhi8uLsC SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:02:00.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:02:00.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "nVidia TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 Rev. A]" Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation" Device: pci 0x1f08 "TU106 [GeForce RTX 2060 Rev. A]" SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." SubDevice: pci 0x86f0 Revision: 0xa1 Memory Range: 0xc4000000-0xc4ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xb0000000-0xbfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xc0000000-0xc1ffffff (ro,non-prefetchable) I/O Ports: 0x4000-0x4fff (rw) Memory Range: 0xc5000000-0xc507ffff (ro,non-prefetchable,disabled) IRQ: 255 (no events) Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00001F08sv00001043sd000086F0bc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: nouveau is not active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nouveau" Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Attached to: #13 (PCI bridge) 23: PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.386] Unique ID: _Znp.LHN+ltsexE0 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Device Name: "Onboard - Video" Model: "Intel VGA compatible controller" Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" Device: pci 0x4c8a SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell" SubDevice: pci 0x09c5 Revision: 0x04 Driver: "i915" Driver Modules: "i915" Memory Range: 0xc3000000-0xc3ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xa0000000-0xafffffff (ro,non-prefetchable) I/O Ports: 0x5000-0x503f (rw) IRQ: 126 (14 events) Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00004C8Asv00001028sd000009C5bc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: i915 is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe i915" Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown Primary display adapter: #12 --------------- A couple months ago when OP requested help here, he had nouveau working but it did not automatically start at boot. It appears that thereafter, OP made a change in the bios to disable using the nvidia card in favor of the integrated Intel graphics, but OP reported that this does not work even though the i915 driver is being loaded. It was suggested to try a newer kernel for a newer i915 driver. I suspect the problem is actually firmware: The i915 kernel driver utilizes firmware provided by Intel in the kernel-firmware-i915 package, which in 15.3 is from the Main Repo and dated Feb 2021, version 20210208-2.4. OP's cpu is a Rocket Lake, which was launched end of March 2021. Consequently the i915 firmware package in 15.3 does not contain the required firmware for OP's machine. However, there is an updated i915 kernel firmware package that was added last month to several OBS 15.3 repo's, such as https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Sauerland/openSUSE_Leap_15..... The package name is kernel-firmware-i915-20220119-lp153.3.1.noarch.rpm. I suggest that OP add this repo and install this package. (Note: In the dry run I tried, YaST wanted to additionally install the other ~30 firmware packages created with same date/version, so apparently these are all of a set that need to be kept at the same version level.) A second alternative is to return the bios setting to use the nvidia card which would instruct the kernel to use nouveau, which works but is not automatically loading. OP reported that he had previously unsuccessfully attempted to install the nvidia driver, which could have left behind nvidia bits. So he should check that the files /etc/modprobe.d/50-nvidia-default.conf and /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-default.conf have been deleted, and then run YaST/Boot Loader, under the Kernel Parameters tab check that "nomodeset" is /not/ on that line; if it is, remove that text and then hit OK to modify the grub2 boot entry reboot. Then reboot. If that doesn't work, try booting into Safe mode. Other suggestions ??? --dg 15.3/Plasma
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