Ianseeks composed on 2022-11-21 08:31 (UTC-0500):
I removed the nvidia board and installed my new old HD6570 and booted up but it just drops to a cli login with an error about SP5100-tco (nvidia also displays this message so i've assumed its not important).
It first blew out with an error to say i had to enable a BIOS setting for Virtualisation which I did and it cleared that error.
I've also put "radeon.cik_support=1 radeon.si_support=1" on the kernel parameters via yast but still no joy.
Your 6570 is too old for either to apply, so they both should be inert.
The Radeon software is installed and running according to the logs, i've checked journalctl for Radeon errors but no joy.
What simple thing have I missed as I'm a bit out of my depth here?
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