Sat, 31 Aug 2024 03:53:03 -0500 "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@gmail.com> :
On 8/30/24 10:10 PM, bent fender wrote:
It may come to this but I'm reluctant because I don't intend to keep this card for long and the only systems that have survived this entire still rolling episode are the ones that never used any nvidia crap
Yep,
But that's part of eating the whale, installing/uninstalling is nothing more than a zypper rm <pkgnames> or rpm -e <pkgnames>. Takes about 3 minutes either way. If it comes to that, don't worry about the temporary status of the card, just install, test, uninstall if it goes to hell.
Now if we were still building everything from source to install it -- then I'd be more hesitant, just for the sheer about of time some builds take... But with packages, just chroot and go.
I also am having a hard time understanding why the installer isn't running. That should have a compatible set of drivers and kernel regardless. Do you have any other video card in your bone-pile you can throw in and test? The installer really should just do its thing unless you are telling it to boot the installed system -- then you are back to the same issues. But the installer itself should launch to a gui with its basic drivers.
Good luck. You have fought the good fight on this one...
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
It ain't over till the fat lady sings, it's morning here as I begin another blessed day with half an hour of coffee poured on my laptop, I'll resume molesting the desktop again in the evening as usual. I do have another used AMD card with a 6-pin aux-power plug that my PSU cannot cater to, I have ordered some molex-to-6 and molex-to-8 adapters though. A dealer 'gave' me this one (which should be a red flag) as a replacement for another old AMD that packed up and led to the return of the old gt640, last try this new old AMD just gave one long and three short beeps which I must say was a huge improvement over two new ones returned to the stores they came from weeks ago. The part that worries ME is where a user with a home on a another drive to which a link points in /home doesn't work as it did the last time I had a working TW. Ubuntu-Studio did something similar to me last year with one of its package handling horrors that wouldn't either. Ubuntu is gone now. Later :-)