On 11/22/20 9:17 AM, DennisG wrote:
I just upgraded a machine to Leap 15.2
only to discover that apparently openSUSE has dropped support
for the nvidia 340 driver; it is not in the 15.2 nvidia repo.
Yet according to nvidia, the driver supports the 5.3 kernel.
The card is a 9800GTX+ - yes it's old but it still works quite
well on 15.1.
Can anyone confirm that dropping support for this driver version
is intentional, although it is still available for download from
nvidia? Since it is not in the repo, I suspect that the
download (aka "hard way") version will have the same issue,
too. (And besides, I really really don't want to get on the
re-installation merry-go-round.)
I'd like to know before just assuming nouveau is my best (only)
option with this card.
I ran into this just a couple of days ago
after an upgrade from 15.1 to 15.2.
The old 340.108 drivers were left in place, but not used. Zypper
and rpm
also showed them.
So I went to nvidia.com to download and install the manual way,
but the
driver package was missing! Their finder pointed to it, but it
wasn't
there. So maybe we're going to have to wait for Nvidia?
Regards,
Lew