Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:06:23 -0500 "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@gmail.com> :
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.
Yes, I remember 6.10 giving problems and me using 6.9 for what seemed like many months. The last grub ritual was done with Yast from TW and probably with kernel 6.10 removed already because the boot menu gives only these choices - 6.9.3-1 - 6.9.3-1 recovery - 6.9.1-1 - 6.9.1-1 recovery I have two backup images made with dd - tw-2024-05-07-vbox.dd - tw-2024-06-04.dd Somewhere along the line I got ticked off and scrounged up an older AMD card, the last time I ran TW (and Artix without systemd) was with that AMD card. Then the AMD card packed up so I reinstalled the old nvidia gt640 interim. Since then neither TW nor Artix boot, both get only as far as a last HDMI icon on the monitor. I've tried so many things with the TW partition that it's prbably totally borked by now, though I could recover it from stored backups to the dates shown. My Slackware, Devuan, and VoidLinux installs which never used nvidia drivers at all (if that's what the problem is) all boot without issues. I thought my best shot would come from booting a TW DVD and doing an upgrade but the DVD's don't boot either so even a chroot has to be done from Slackware, a last Mohican that still lets you log in at cLi level. THIS is what I don't understand, why would an installer want to use any proprietary driver at all when an alternative avails (if that's what the problem is)? So what I think I should try is recover the TW partition, then chroot from Slackware and TRY to edit what needs editing so that nouveau gets used on the next boot, which is a few fathoms over my head. I did chroot and try to install the last nvidia 'run' driver file but I don't think it helped any (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-470.256.02.run). All this time I bought a new AMD card which prevented my box from booting at all, returned it, bought the same form another store, same deal. Got into all manner of TS and arguments over that all to no avail. Another option is to wait (another 6 months?) until the suse DVD's do manage to boot into any hardware known to man, something I always thought was a *firm Linux forte* :-)