On 29/04/2020 06.13, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
On 4/28/20 3:14 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 29/04/2020 00.08, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
On 4/28/20 3:01 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Provided the nvidia 15.2 repo does exist already, I do not know.
Hi again Carlos, everyone, I fear I need to pick your brains (and all other gurus) a little further, and I apologize for not understanding what is going on with building kernels and their drivers... I am making some guesses here and my communication may not be precise, be wary. I got almost all the way and managed to upgrade the kernel and even managed to almost get it to boot up to the point where the KDE desktop is suppose to show up. The problem I think (BIG guess here) is that the 15.2 repo did not include the same version of the nvidia drivers that I am using in 15.1. I installed the repo as per your suggestion/script and noted that this new repo did not include the drivers for "nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-default - NVIDIA graphics driver kernel module for GeForce 8xxx and newer GPUs", and associated nvidia packages for gfxG03. The new repo did have drivers for gfxG04 and gfxG05 packages which I think are for newer nvidia cards. I have an older GeForce 8500.
AHHH! That's bad luck. And it is the reason why I changed my hardware: I changed to AIT/AMD graphics. I had that same problem as you, I saw this coming :-/
Not knowing what to do about the fact that there was no gfxG03 packages in the 15.2 repo I chose not to do anything and just leave the nVidia packages as it. That resulted, when I rebooted, and got to the point where the KDE login prompt normally appears, in that all I got was a big fat cursor arrow that I could move around, but nothing more. No login prompt, no desktop, nada. No error messages showed up while I watched the output from all the system startup steps. Other than buying a newer nVidia graphics card,
Don't. Whatever happens, don't. At worst, buy a new ATI/AMD card. Seriously.
any suggestions? Maybe it is not an nVidia issue but perhaps I need other newer packages such as for the KDE destop with Plasma? I am again just guessing, what do I know? LOL (Thank goodness that the GRUB menu does allow me to reboot back to either the older 15.1 or 42.2 systems, where everything works as before, so I didn't brick my computer!) Thanks again for any more suggestions... Marc....
I don't want to do the wrong guess here. Best guess scenario, is that by the time 15.2 is released we do get the gfxG03 again. Worst guess scenario is, we don't. I have my suspicion why that would be, but I hesitate to say it. In the later case, you may revert to the opensource nouveau driver. No 3D support, partial hardware acceleration. Plan B, you try the nvidia driver "the hard way". <https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_the_hard_way> Plan C: in your situation, *I* would go back to the 15.1 kernel, install the sources, and compile my own kernel with the mkiss driver added. I can guide you with this one. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)