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Gmail

8 Oct 2013 8 Oct '13

14:58

Hello openSuSE list- my question regards the correct Nvidia drivers to use with my laptop on which I very recently installed 12.3 ? The card installed is: Nvidia GeForce GTX 285M Graphics with 1GB GDDR3 Vi. The Nvidia driver installed now is: nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop. Is that the right one? Also, there are some nouveau drivers. Should they be there? I'm a new SuSE user but in my past Ubuntu experience this machine as always worked best with those proprietary drivers. I don't game but do have a large monitor and have found the nvidia-settings app has helped it work. That is, when I close the lid the attached DVI monitor become primary. Can't seem to make that work with the installed drivers, or without them. Also, after I installed this driver all the fonts seem too large. Something's wrong. Can you advise? Thanks Reid -- Gmail -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

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James Knott

8 Oct 8 Oct

15:06

Gmail wrote:

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I don't game but do have a large monitor and have found the nvidia-settings app has helped it work.

I recently switched from the distro drivers to original NVidia and got a significant performance boost. I had previously used the original drivers, but didn't bother when I moved to openSUSE 12.x. I experienced a severe performance hit as a result. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R.

15:16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2013-10-08 16:58, Gmail wrote:

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Hello openSuSE list-

my question regards the correct Nvidia drivers to use with my laptop on which I very recently installed 12.3 ? The card installed is: Nvidia GeForce GTX 285M Graphics with 1GB GDDR3 Vi. The Nvidia driver installed now is: nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop. Is that the right one? Also, there are some nouveau drivers. Should they be there?

Normally, if you activate the nvidia repo you get automatically the proper driver. http://en.opensuse.org/Additional_package_repositories#NVIDIA_drivers http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Nvidia_Video_Cards http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 "Celadon" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlJUIesACgkQja8UbcUWM1zBvAD+JOVrQIn2lCqvd8PxYaE69FdB GMd7ucSSafgQjh6JKaYA/jzNz6C1e5/qV0XvURf6foPaFZhpECTyWBHCrz7QdZ7T =rYO/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Andrey Borzenkov

16:25

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 В Tue, 08 Oct 2013 17:16:59 +0200 "Carlos E. R." пишет:

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On 2013-10-08 16:58, Gmail wrote:

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Hello openSuSE list-

my question regards the correct Nvidia drivers to use with my laptop on which I very recently installed 12.3 ? The card installed is: Nvidia GeForce GTX 285M Graphics with 1GB GDDR3 Vi. The Nvidia driver installed now is: nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop. Is that the right one? Also, there are some nouveau drivers. Should they be there?

Normally, if you activate the nvidia repo you get automatically the proper driver.

You still need to chose which one to install - G01, G02 or G03 ... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlJUMeUACgkQR6LMutpd94x56QCdFDkQjAUZdjaPfwxfjf7j3ata 5ckAoJhY8Orw7UtR7fNM+6/qe4q2cIvk =pvfM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- N▀╖╡ФЛr╦⌡yИ ┼Z)z{.╠О╝·к⌡╠йБmЙ)z{.╠Й+│:╒{Zrшaz▄'z╥╕j)h╔ИЛ╨г╬ё ч╝┼^·к╛z┼Ю

Dylan

16:46

On 08/10/13 17:25, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:

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В Tue, 08 Oct 2013 17:16:59 +0200 "Carlos E. R." пишет:

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On 2013-10-08 16:58, Gmail wrote:

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Hello openSuSE list-

my question regards the correct Nvidia drivers to use with my laptop on which I very recently installed 12.3 ? The card installed is: Nvidia GeForce GTX 285M Graphics with 1GB GDDR3 Vi. The Nvidia driver installed now is: nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop. Is that the right one? Also, there are some nouveau drivers. Should they be there?

Normally, if you activate the nvidia repo you get automatically the proper driver.

You still need to chose which one to install - G01, G02 or G03 ...

But if you don't know which one start at G03 and work back. Some cards at least work with more than one, and getting the wrong one can lead to problems. Dx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R.

18:16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2013-10-08 18:25, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:

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В Tue, 08 Oct 2013 17:16:59 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <> пишет:

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Normally, if you activate the nvidia repo you get automatically the proper driver.

You still need to chose which one to install - G01, G02 or G03 ...

Weird. I think mine was selected automatically, I did not have to choose. Maybe it happens for some models only, listed somewhere. :-? - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 "Celadon" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlJUTBMACgkQja8UbcUWM1yrYQD/V3cNiLYqs3s0+M8k5jY9K3oj vfS+9TcHKScrbFrjMKQA+wUOBZdCIqcS4kUZT6/l5hfZv2lV0JlF66l2tBI+V89M =gPey -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R.

18:19

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2013-10-08 20:16, I wrote:

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On 2013-10-08 18:25, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:

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В Tue, 08 Oct 2013 17:16:59 +0200 "Carlos E. R." <> пишет:

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Normally, if you activate the nvidia repo you get automatically the proper driver.

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You still need to chose which one to install - G01, G02 or G03 ...

Weird. I think mine was selected automatically, I did not have to choose. Maybe it happens for some models only, listed somewhere. :-?

See here: http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Nvidia_Video_Cards Some say "autodetected". - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 "Celadon" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlJUTLEACgkQja8UbcUWM1ydZgD/cKFnd5J2i7sxX3ropb6SYK+J B/qOMBAn+2rtDclQfIMA/1W+TTYjL9j8COGGLz5JOez27XSV3iBI2athDYOHqkTq =+tF+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Roger Oberholtzer

9 Oct 9 Oct

10:02

On Tuesday, October 08, 2013 05:16:59 PM Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 2013-10-08 16:58, Gmail wrote:

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Hello openSuSE list-

my question regards the correct Nvidia drivers to use with my laptop on which I very recently installed 12.3 ? The card installed is: Nvidia GeForce GTX 285M Graphics with 1GB GDDR3 Vi. The Nvidia driver installed now is: nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop. Is that the right one? Also, there are some nouveau drivers. Should they be there?

Normally, if you activate the nvidia repo you get automatically the proper driver.

But not for the kernel in Kernel:/stable/standard I am trying to build an OEM installable image of oS12.3 and would like to use the kernel in Kernel:/stable/standard. But then I cannot also include the nvidia RPMs. I wish nvidia would add support for that kernel as well. -- Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer Ramböll RST / Systems Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

C

10:17

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

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On Tuesday, October 08, 2013 05:16:59 PM Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Normally, if you activate the nvidia repo you get automatically the proper driver.

But not for the kernel in Kernel:/stable/standard

I am trying to build an OEM installable image of oS12.3 and would like to use the kernel in Kernel:/stable/standard. But then I cannot also include the nvidia RPMs. I wish nvidia would add support for that kernel as well.

True, you do need to build your own driver when you use a Kernel this isn't "default". This was about/for a new-to-openSUSE user though, who is highly unlikely to be using the Kernel:/stable/standard repo. I hate to see the help a new user gets as pointing them at the difficult/complicated route first... instead of the simple "add the nvidia community repo and update" solution. This manual install route has got at least one acquaintance of mine into a disaster with openSUSE. He searched on his own and found the manual install. He was told yes this is the "right way" to install the driver so he followed the steps. He didn't know what he was doing, but can follow instructions and got it all installed without any real issues. A few days later a new kernel came down the pipe and splat... his system wouldn't boot up with graphical anymore. He didn't know what to do to fix it (he's new to Linux), and with no way to check the internet for solutions, he reinstalled from scratch. I guess what I'm saying is installing from the tarball is fine for us old farts who know the game, but to point new users at this method is... not really a good idea in my view unless they are explicitly asking for this method due to some special case requirements they have (like using a non-default kernel). C. -- openSUSE 12.3 x86_64, KDE 4.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R.

20:59

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 El 2013-10-09 a las 12:17 +0200, C escribió:

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This manual install route has got at least one acquaintance of mine into a disaster with openSUSE. He searched on his own and found the manual install. He was told yes this is the "right way" to install the driver so he followed the steps. He didn't know what he was doing, but can follow instructions and got it all installed without any real issues. A few days later a new kernel came down the pipe and splat... his system wouldn't boot up with graphical anymore. He didn't know what to do to fix it (he's new to Linux), and with no way to check the internet for solutions, he reinstalled from scratch.

Oh :-( Did he not have multiversion active for the kernel? He should have been able to boot the previous kernel from grub menu.

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I guess what I'm saying is installing from the tarball is fine for us old farts who know the game, but to point new users at this method is... not really a good idea in my view unless they are explicitly asking for this method due to some special case requirements they have (like using a non-default kernel).

I agree. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 "Celadon" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlJVw8QACgkQja8UbcUWM1xL5AD/R9u1Sp/IHO5/+lvnwwDhpegi u+w2ktooNg3aOlzRMIUA/iPW/vB/u7M8XX7euEFWMOU0VlmEjGenATtu4rElPPZt =+SS2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Basil Chupin

10 Oct 10 Oct

08:06

On 10/10/13 07:59, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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El 2013-10-09 a las 12:17 +0200, C escribió:

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This manual install route has got at least one acquaintance of mine into a disaster with openSUSE. He searched on his own and found the manual install. He was told yes this is the "right way" to install the driver so he followed the steps. He didn't know what he was doing, but can follow instructions and got it all installed without any real issues. A few days later a new kernel came down the pipe and splat... his system wouldn't boot up with graphical anymore. He didn't know what to do to fix it (he's new to Linux), and with no way to check the internet for solutions, he reinstalled from scratch.

Oh :-(

Did he not have multiversion active for the kernel? He should have been able to boot the previous kernel from grub menu.

As far as I am concerned this makes no difference from personal experience. When a new kernel is installed the grub menu tries to boot the system with the new kernel and you don't have a choice of booting with anything else - even trying the "Safe Mode" results in the same process. Having multversion active in sysconfig only means that the old kernels are not removed from /boot. If you look at your /boot you will see that while you may a hundred kernel versions sitting there, the @intrd and @vmlinuz are pointing at the latest installed kernel. [pruned] BC -- "If you read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." - Haruki Murakami -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R.

12:34

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 El 2013-10-10 a las 19:06 +1100, Basil Chupin escribió:

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On 10/10/13 07:59, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Did he not have multiversion active for the kernel? He should have been able to boot the previous kernel from grub menu.

As far as I am concerned this makes no difference from personal experience. When a new kernel is installed the grub menu tries to boot the system with the new kernel and you don't have a choice of booting with anything else - even trying the "Safe Mode" results in the same process.

Having multversion active in sysconfig only means that the old kernels are not removed from /boot. If you look at your /boot you will see that while you may a hundred kernel versions sitting there, the @intrd and @vmlinuz are pointing at the latest installed kernel.

Then you have something wrong in your setup. In my machines it boots by default the new kernel, yes, but, be it grub 1 or 2, I get an extra entry to boot the old kernel. in grub2 you have to select the "advanced" entry, and there you should have two (or more) normal boot entries, and two (or more) failsafe entries. Of those two one is for the old kernel and another for the new kernel. In grub 1 you simply get a list of all kernels, with two entries for each (normal and failsafe). - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 "Celadon" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlJWnvUACgkQja8UbcUWM1z9dQD+P82K9qI+8HUoeRmyjIVobJ2Y MFxzlBuPFUBOq05Jt0YA/ja1efLQiiNJGQMSbPixBJ9PL2qdUkGz49EEb/ug0CTX =qu4B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Carlos E. R.

9 Oct 9 Oct

10:26

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2013-10-09 12:02, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

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On Tuesday, October 08, 2013 05:16:59 PM Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Normally, if you activate the nvidia repo you get automatically the proper driver.

But not for the kernel in Kernel:/stable/standard

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I am trying to build an OEM installable image of oS12.3 and would like to use the kernel in Kernel:/stable/standard. But then I cannot also include the nvidia RPMs. I wish nvidia would add support for that kernel as well.

You miss one important point: it is not NVidia who builds those rpms, it is openSUSE. NVidia simply hosts them. (if you don't believe me, read the readme at the nvidia ftp site) - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 "Celadon" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlJVL2IACgkQja8UbcUWM1ypMwD/Slt5/7BSQEyNjqT8B/+Uaq+h xki/ZSLrYi6FD96eUFMA/Al+BPyIEmnCzLhcu9OOBWvxwCmraa3kZHCHhdVyfcrZ =P7vN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Roger Oberholtzer

10:30

On Wednesday, October 09, 2013 12:26:42 PM Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 2013-10-09 12:02, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

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On Tuesday, October 08, 2013 05:16:59 PM Carlos E. R. wrote:

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Normally, if you activate the nvidia repo you get automatically the proper driver.

But not for the kernel in Kernel:/stable/standard

I am trying to build an OEM installable image of oS12.3 and would like to use the kernel in Kernel:/stable/standard. But then I cannot also include the nvidia RPMs. I wish nvidia would add support for that kernel as well.

You miss one important point: it is not NVidia who builds those rpms, it is openSUSE. NVidia simply hosts them.

(if you don't believe me, read the readme at the nvidia ftp site)

So it is an openSUSE choice to support this. Hmmm. I wonder if there are any good reasons not to. I would imagine that if you choose Kernel:/stable/standard you are probably doing to do the most damage if something goes wrong. Having the nvidia stuff as well surely could not make matters worse. Or? -- Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer Ramböll RST / Systems Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R.

16:36

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2013-10-09 12:30, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

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On Wednesday, October 09, 2013 12:26:42 PM Carlos E. R. wrote:

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You miss one important point: it is not NVidia who builds those rpms, it is openSUSE. NVidia simply hosts them.

(if you don't believe me, read the readme at the nvidia ftp site)

So it is an openSUSE choice to support this. Hmmm. I wonder if there are any good reasons not to.

One reason is that it is only one person who does this (unpaid?) work. Having to support all kernel flavours, and rapidly changing versions as it is, would be excessive. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 "Celadon" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlJVhfMACgkQja8UbcUWM1ybbQD/caI51aygyaisUl3lblAY34oj BQZFBHUkt/yKZ8cdM38A+gMzfgJ2pbYgy1HCPiSXsSMtZkriZzL6sGtoWC9d1z7X =SYOw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Roger Oberholtzer

10 Oct 10 Oct

05:47

On Wednesday, October 09, 2013 06:36:03 PM Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 2013-10-09 12:30, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

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On Wednesday, October 09, 2013 12:26:42 PM Carlos E. R. wrote:

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You miss one important point: it is not NVidia who builds those rpms, it is openSUSE. NVidia simply hosts them.

(if you don't believe me, read the readme at the nvidia ftp site)

So it is an openSUSE choice to support this. Hmmm. I wonder if there are any good reasons not to.

One reason is that it is only one person who does this (unpaid?) work. Having to support all kernel flavours, and rapidly changing versions as it is, would be excessive.

I can appreciate that. I was just curious if there was also some technical reason that Kernel:/stable/standard could not be supported. Resources to do so is a different question. -- Yours sincerely, Roger Oberholtzer Ramböll RST / Systems Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 roger.oberholtzer@ramboll.se ________________________________________ Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden www.rambollrst.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Thomas Taylor

8 Oct 8 Oct

21:52

On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 10:58:19 -0400 Gmail wrote:

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Hello openSuSE list-

my question regards the correct Nvidia drivers to use with my laptop on which I very recently installed 12.3 ? The card installed is: Nvidia GeForce GTX 285M Graphics with 1GB GDDR3 Vi. The Nvidia driver installed now is: nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop. Is that the right one? Also, there are some nouveau drivers. Should they be there?

If both Nvidia and nouveau drivers are loaded there is the possibility of conflict. The nouveau driver should be blacklisted. The attached text file is a procedure from the openSUSE forum regarding installing drivers from the Nvidia website.

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I'm a new SuSE user but in my past Ubuntu experience this machine as always worked best with those proprietary drivers. I don't game but do have a large monitor and have found the nvidia-settings app has helped it work. That is, when I close the lid the attached DVI monitor become primary. Can't seem to make that work with the installed drivers, or without them.

Also, after I installed this driver all the fonts seem too large. Something's wrong. Can you advise?

Thanks

Reid

Check on the openSUSE forum (http://forums.opensuse.org/forum.php) for information regarding the font and DVI problem. Tom -- Every man is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. - Bertrand Russell ^^ --... ...-- / -.- --. --... -.-. ..-. -.-. ^^^^ Tom Taylor - retired penguin - KG7CFC AMD Phenom II x4 955 -- 4GB RAM -- 2x1.5TB sata2 openSUSE 13.1_M4-x86_64 KDE 4.11.00, FF 22.0, claws-mail 3.9.2 registered linux user 263467

C

9 Oct 9 Oct

07:31

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Thomas Taylor wrote:

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If both Nvidia and nouveau drivers are loaded there is the possibility of conflict. The nouveau driver should be blacklisted. The attached text file is a procedure from the openSUSE forum regarding installing drivers from the Nvidia website.

If you add the nvidia community repository and let the drivers install on your next update, this is done automatically for you. In other words.. add the nvidia repo... and the rest takes care of itself (on every nvidia system I've ever installed on) C. -- openSUSE 12.3 x86_64, KDE 4.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Upscope

21:19

Not sure but Nvidia site says to use the 319.60 driver for the GTX285M. See Supported products: at Code ---------- //www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-319.60-driver.html ---------- I am not sure this board is covered by the versions in the repo. Try downloading and installing the hardway or use the following script: Code --------- http://forums.opensuse.org/blogs/jdmcdaniel3/lnvhw-load-nvidia-driver-hard-w... --------- I have used the script on both 12.3 and 13.1 and it works. I'm not sure if this version of driver needs patching. some do. Hope this helps. On Tuesday, October 08, 2013 10:58:19 AM Gmail wrote:

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Hello openSuSE list-

my question regards the correct Nvidia drivers to use with my laptop on which I very recently installed 12.3 ? The card installed is: Nvidia GeForce GTX 285M Graphics with 1GB GDDR3 Vi. The Nvidia driver installed now is: nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop. Is that the right one? Also, there are some nouveau drivers. Should they be there?

I'm a new SuSE user but in my past Ubuntu experience this machine as always worked best with those proprietary drivers. I don't game but do have a large monitor and have found the nvidia-settings app has helped it work. That is, when I close the lid the attached DVI monitor become primary. Can't seem to make that work with the installed drivers, or without them.

Also, after I installed this driver all the fonts seem too large. Something's wrong. Can you advise?

Thanks

Reid

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