From: bent fender <slowroller@trixtar.org> To: openSUSE Forums <f03848728af0d56fdf74893af8353d0e@forums.opensuse.org> Subject: Re: [openSUSE Forums] [English/Install/Boot/Login] How to enable nvidia or nouveau from live/rescue/othersystem? Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 23:05:06 -0400 X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-slackware-linux-gnu) Sat, 31 Aug 2024 00:49:45 +0000 Felix Miata via openSUSE Forums <noreply@forums.opensuse.org> :

[quote="towbar, post:4, topic:177964"] I boot with the latest TW install DVD and I have an nvidia GT640 card on the motheboard. What do I do to get an installer GUI? [/quote] Does your computer support UEFI? If yes, is CSM (legacy mode booting) enabled in the BIOS? If yes, is what is on the internal(s) drive now configured to use UEFI?

Not using UEFI at all, I think the Corosshair-IV-Formula board supports it but can't really say.

How exactly did this "install DVD" come into possession? Downloaded and burned .iso of DVD image? Details please. Written to DVD? Written to USB? What program did you write with? Purchased somewhere?

Same as always, including the last ten or so that didn't work - Download from suse using gftp - Burn image to DVD+R with k3b - this last one was: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-Snapshot20240827-Media.iso I always use 'verify data' but this time verification did dot take place; it didn't fail, just never happened. Not a factor since this has been going on for months and all the previopus DVD writes verified OK. Your earlier suggestion to append 3 and/or nomodeset to the linux line in the grub stanza DID improve things a bit. I got a localhost login so I logged in as root and called sddm. Then I logged in as my standard dummy user "u0" and got plasma up and running with no issues. But for UserMe I first verified that the data partition where that home is stored on a 4tb ssd and linked to from /home/UserMe was in fact mounted: it was. Then I tried to log in as UserMe and got the same result as when I did a chroot: no login and returned to sddm. I call xeyes in .profile I think and xeyes flashes momentarily as well as some color bars like a comb but no plasma. I cannot launch Artix either, TW and Artix are my only two installs using plasma. TW is my only install with systemd, probably unrelated but TW has often been problematic with my nvidia card, not suse if Artix is/was using nouveau. Slakware, Devuan are using XFCE, VoidLinux isn't GUI yet, these three definitely do not and never have used nvidia drivers but all worked and still do except Artix. I haven't tried the nomodeset bit with Artix yet. But there is a difference when I chroot into Artix: after first logging in as dummy user u0 I see the data partition mounted because it was mounted in Slackware from where I chrooted. KDF shows it containing nothing. I mount it again and thereupon KDF shows it xy% full. I log out and try my UserMe login and this is where Artix differs from TW: I do get plasma up.

What exactly happens when you try to boot your "install DVD"? Do you use your BBS menu for choosing what to boot? Details please..

I use the grub menu, sometimes edited or done full manual. Since TW was my go2 system I did grub with it but with no TW and no new grubbies the other systems boots started falling apart as well, this got fixed a couple days ago when I got Yast up in a chrooted TW and redid the whole ritual. It's been another VERY long day, later :-)