On 8/27/24 8:13 PM, bent fender wrote:
My nvidia gt640 video card is temporarily re-installed after the AMD card went kaput. The TW install and Live DVD's both boot but end up with a black screen after the last HDMI symbol appears. The DVD continues reading but the prog is unaware that I can't see anything. I thought that the installers and Live media could work with any card. What are my options to recover the installation and use it with this card UFN?
Well, If you can boot to a text console or boot a recovery/install disk and chroot your current install, you can uninstall the current nvidiaXXX drivers from the command line. The nvidia drivers blacklist nouveau which prevents that module from loading. I suspect that is where the live CD went south. After uninstalling the current nvidia drivers, your box should boot to graphics mode. Or if not, just use text mode. If you are on TW with the 6.10 kernel, you will either need to patch the driver from the official repo, or install the kernel-devel (kernel source) and add the following temporary repo that has the nvidia driver patched for 6.10: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/drankinatty:/branches:/home... (buildservice) https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:drankinatty:branches:home:ligur... When you install the driver, it will build the patched module against the kernel source. Reboot and you should be good to go. If you are not on TW with the 6.10 kernel, then simply uninstalling your current nvidia drivers should do it. With the 6.9 kernel or earlier, you can then just simply load the G05 drivers from the official nvidia repo and be good. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.