Nvidia GTX 210 Tumbleweed

[fleamour]

I have a Nvidia 210 Series but Tumbleweed says 400 Series onwards? What are my options, or jst upgrade my hardware? Still getting mileage outa C2D era hardware!

[Knurpht]

Eh, install the NVIDIA driver the hard way? I.e. from a downloaded NVIDIA.....run ?

[fleamour]

Would it break with every new kernel? I did get Leap running with 210 from repos.

[ionmich]

Would it break with every new kernel? I did get Leap running with 210 from repos.

I am using a GeForce 210 with the nouveau driver under Leap 15.1 and it works just fine. Is there not an option to install nouveau under Tumbleweed? Then you don't have to bother updating with every new kernel.

[Knurpht]

I am using a GeForce 210 with the nouveau driver under Leap 15.1 and it works just fine. Is there not an option to install nouveau under Tumbleweed? Then you don't have to bother updating with every new kernel.

The nouveau driver is in the kernel, X11 related package is installed by default

[mrmazda]

There's no need for optional software with a 210:

> rpm -qa | egrep -i 'video|vidia'
libgstvideo-1_0-0-1.16.0-3.1.x86_64
xf86-video-fbdev-0.5.0-1.7.x86_64
xf86-video-vesa-2.4.0-1.7.x86_64
> xrandr | egrep 'onnect|creen|\*' | grep -v disconn | sort -r
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 4480 x 1440, maximum 8192 x 8192
HDMI-1 connected 1920x1200+2560+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 519mm x 324mm
DVI-I-1 connected primary 2560x1440+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 598mm x 336mm
   2560x1440     59.95*+
   1920x1200     59.95*+
> xdpyinfo | egrep 'dimen|ution'
  dimensions:    4480x1440 pixels (948x304 millimeters)
  resolution:    120x120 dots per inch
> inxi -GxxS
System:    Host: hp945 Kernel: 5.2.14-1-default x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.2.1 Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.16.5
           tk: Qt 5.13.1 wm: kwin_x11 dm: startx Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20191118
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:0a65
           Display: server: X.Org 1.20.5 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa alternate: nouveau,nv,nvidia
           compositor: kwin_x11 resolution: 2560x1440~60Hz, 1920x1200~60Hz
           OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 8.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 19.1.7 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes

[Sauerland]

I think Nvidia driver (340) does not build with the kernel from Tumbleweed, thats why this driver is not in the Nvidia Repo.
So use the nouveau.

[fleamour]

Nouveau seemed bit janky to start off, working well now though.