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.