On 22/11/2020 18.18, 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.
Hum! You posted twice. The hard way depends on what NVidia themselves make available, so if the G03 driver supports the kernel, you have that possibility. Oh, I see Lew comments it isn't. I hit problems with G03 much earlier than you, with leap 15.0. You can see the problem described on <http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1132952> and has no solution. The problem is the driver does not support libglvnd, and the plan was to drop support for 15.x series. 15.1 had partial support, 15.2 none. My solution was to buy a new computer with AMD graphics. Sorry. Note: If you grep the mail lists (this one, support, and perhaps factory, for that bug number, you may locate other threads with comments on this issue). This problem should be commented on the Leap 15.2 notes (<https://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/Leap/15.2/>) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)