On Fri, 2022-05-13 at 15:00 +0000, Sean Marlow wrote:
Hi,
I have a Dell Precision 7560 machine that is running Tumbleweed. It has an Nvidia GPU but I've had no luck getting drivers to load. Curious if anyone else has a similar machine and has found a solution here.
I've tried both the Nvidia proprietary drivers and also nouveau both with no luck. Initally I had the system setup using secure boot. When the drivers installed they were not creating the MOK keypair and thus on reboot there's no way to add the keypair to the MOK database.
Since then I've disabled secure boot and tried reinstalling both drivers (separately) and still the drivers do load at boot. Any ideas how to get the drivers to load. For now I have an unusable GPU and thus an unusable HDMI port.
I have already changed the boot mode to (slow) to load all drivers. This was required to get the openSUSE installer to boot. And I'm following the steps according to [1].
[1] https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers
Thanks, Sean
I have the Precision in my signature ~ does the one you reference use "NVIDIA® RTX™ T1200"? There aren't show-stopping issues w/ mine, but I do have to futz with it each new kernel (I'm guessing I could do something dkms-related to get around that, but ...). I do have secure boot enabled and have been reusing my .der/.key each time at the prompts during install. That setup was mildly painless, but since I 'got it right the 1st time' I'm not sure what I'd do if I needed to fix it ... I fear that day 😋️ I'm able to [re]use the latest .run from https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/ each time; where the main issue I have to repeatedly fix is: ln -s /usr/src/linux-$(uname -r | sed 's/-default//g')- obj/x86_64/default/scripts/sign-file /usr/src/linux-$(uname -r | sed 's/-default//g')/scripts/sign-file or I can't sign what it builds. But I have that in a script that I run after a 'zypper dup' installs a new kernel, so my process is generally automated (aside from clicking tui buttons and typing the path to the .der/.key when prompted). It's about 50:50 on if I get a lightdm login window post-driver-install (after any reboot) because sometimes 'nvidia_drm' isn't loaded at boot; but that's a simple 'modprobe nvidia_drm && systemctl restart display- manager' so I don't fuss about it. I don't know what the support level/differences w/ the driver would be between the T1000 & T1200 ~ maybe that's the issue overall? Are you sure nouveau is disabled? Though the .run should do that regardless. Also, I don't really trust prime-select to do anything of value (and it seems to report some type of service run failure at boot - no matter what actually ends up happening - but I generally run it to set the T1000 to be used at boot. Additionally, ONCE I had an issue where it seemed like bbswitch completely disabled/turned off the NVIDIA card, that was weird. -- ~ Scott Bradnick |- Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Developer |-- Tumbleweed: |--- Dell Precision 5540 [NVIDIA Quadro T1000] (x86_64) |--- O-DROID H2+ [UHD Graphics 600] (x86_64) |--- 2x Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.2 (aarch64) |--- WinBook TW100 (x86_64) https://keys.openpgp.org/ :: DBC5AA9A2D2BAEBC