I’m a total noob and this is a first time install on a toshiba tecra s4, and I did check that all the hardware would be compatible beforehand, it is-- but it seems to be some sort of resolution problem and I have no idea how to do anything about it because I can’t see the menus or windows really. Took 2 usb drives, a dvd, hours and a few attempts just to get the bloody OS installed at all, now this.
btw I’ve got KDE desktop, and the computer won’t shut down from the OS, I have to force it to shut off.
really hope someone can give a straight forward fix.
For your card you can use the latest G03 driver, i.e. the one labelled “for GeForce 8 and later”/“for GeForce 8xxx and newer”.
My preferred way of installing it:
Enter YaST->Software Repositories, click on “Add”, select “Community Repositories” and add the nVidida Repository there.
Then enter YaST->Software Management, type “nvidia” (without the quotes) into the search field and install the following packages (they might even be selected already):
nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop, x11-video-nvidiaG03, nvidia-glG03, nvidia-computeG03
Then when the packages are installed, reboot and the nvidia driver should be in use.
Please note that this list only applies if you are using kernel-desktop! If you use kernel-default f.e. (you can either check which kernel-xxx packages are installed in YaST, or run “uname -a” in a terminal window; if in doubt better just ask), you would have to install nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-default instead of nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop.
a word of wisdom (based on personal experience)…
try setting it up using XFACE or LXDE desktop. they seam to work better out of the box.
KDE have issues with nVideo that can be fixed but not very easy to do so when your monitor is barely readable.
I went through this just last week trying to setup my HP Pavilion laptop.
LiveCD and full KDE and Gnome install from live cd and DVD did not work.
could not do anything ,barely could see the desktop etc.
finally installed nVidia drivers(was not sure I had nvidia, had to run terminal and lspci to check hardware, googled “opensuse nvideo drivers” and found site with click once driver install) after that the video was fixed but the machine was slow, very slow.
so dumped it and reinstall with LXDE using full DVD setup . totally different experience.
It worked right from the start. no slowdowns, desktop fully working and responsive.
run the updates, searched the drivers again and run the one click install.
fully functioning machine in a bout 40 min.
it took me around 6 hours overall to test and try all the previous installs,with downloads and disk writing, installs, and struggle with not responsive screens and all,
and it took me total of less than 3 hours to get it working with full DVD setup and LXDE desktop including all the updates, search and configure wireless card, sound card etc.
I cannot confirm that.
While I only have a radeon and intel system myself (where KDE works very well), I also never seen any problem like this on my girlfriend’s nvidia system.
KDE runs perfectly well there, even with the nouveau driver (I tried that recently as a test).
YMMV, of course.
You should have at least 1GiB RAM for KDE nowadays though, XFCE or LXDE might still run well with less.
I am not 100% sure what the cause is/was with my laptop.
it is not new (about 6 yo) HP Pavilion dv6000 series.(came with Vista)
with 1.8 AMD Athlon CPU and 4GB RAM (I maxed out the ram the day I bought it to load win XP 64 bit on it. worked well but need a refresh now.)
any install with full blown desktop on it end in unusable system. Gnome was better(not by much) but full KDE was a disaster in making.
since I mostly have been palying with LXDE(building a VM/file server right now) thought to try and load that from the start.
LXDE setup work perfectly. the system was responsive, the desktop was nice and clear, no artifacts no delays, no broken windows. nice crisp picture and colors.
in fact I have not noticed any differences after loading the nVideo drivers.
I suspect that there might be differences later when I want to try and play videos or something but for every day operations I do not see any differences in look and feel, from system with default driver and nvideo driver.
so can say either way what helps or not. but nothing wrong in trying
I have an AMD Athlon64 1.8GHz here (older than 6 years ) with 2GiB RAM and an old Radeon 9600 card (11 years old!).
KDE runs fine on that, even with Desktop effects turned on.
But of course slowness is also subjective.
In earlier versions Nepomuk’s file indexing could have a high impact on the system. But that improved considerably over the years, and it’s turned off by default anyway (on openSUSE at least).
In fact I have not noticed any differences after loading the nVideo drivers.
I suspect that there might be differences later when I want to try and play videos or something but for every day operations I do not see any differences in look and feel, from system with default driver and nvideo driver.
Well, I guess you would see a difference when trying to play back HD videos. This would depend of course on your particular graphics card as well (i.e. whether it supports VDPAU).
But nothing of this has any relevance to the OP’s problem anyway.
I looked in yast and cant really see where the desktop info is so i’m just going to put both of those drivers on a usb and if the first one doesnt work, try the other
sounds like KDE should work… this laptop has a bit of a weird resolution tho, and it is really slow and old but has SSD so even with windows it ran better than a slightly newer and much more powerful dell that im not right now.
Sorry, but what are you talking about now?
What do you mean with “desktop info”?
And there’s only one nvidia driver, but it consists of 4 packages. Better install it with YaST in recovery mode.
Or do you have no Internet connection?
Then we should fix that first I’d say, as your system does work fine in the recovery mode.
Ah, I think you mean whether you use kernel-desktop or kernel-default.
Well, just type “kernel” into the search field in YaST and you’ll see which one is installed.
Or run “uname -a” in a terminal window.
well, isn’t OP said that he/she is trying to setup a laptop with nVideo graphic chipset and having issue with video after install.
based on the picture provided I thought we might have similar issues and since I went through it already and found a solution I tough I will share. my issue was with my nVideo card. the default video driver that comes with full desktop install was not working either because it was not compatible or because the full desktop setup need a lot of power to run.
I did managed to setup proper nVideo driver with in the full setup and it solve the issue with bad graphics but I decided to reinstall the full system with more streamlined desktop after because the whole system was still too slow overall and I wanted to try different disk layout and config.
Well, apparently he has problem with the standard nouveau driver, which installing the nvidia driver should fix.
Nowhere did he mention anything about KDE running slow though…
based on the picture provided I thought we might have similar issues and since I went through it already and found a solution I tough I will share. my issue was with my nVideo card. the default video driver that comes with full desktop install was not working either because it was not compatible or because the full desktop setup need a lot of power to run.
The nouveau driver still has problems with certain cards, yes. The nvidia driver should work fine though.
This should improve in the future though, because nvidia anounced a few months ago that they are going to support the nouveau development now finally.
I’ve got the drivers on a usb, but can’t find any way to use them
everyone seems to assume there’s a working internet connection for all these problems which is absolutely retarded. its a **** fresh install that i can’t run outside of recovery mode. its been days and lots of energy…
do people often offer to set up all this garbage for a small fee? much rather stop wasting my life on this retarded install.
i just looked to see if indeed my ethernet adapter wasnt being recognized and that laptop is completely unable to connect to internet, and lo and behold it is… this is really the most user friendly yet configurable linux distro? seriously? something like this will never, ever be adopted en masse. and the support here is completely out of touch with people who aren’t computer obsessed.
is there ANY CHANCE i can do the most very basic things on that system with opensuse in the next 24 hours? i’d like a straight answer. if not, i’m done wasting my time.
) with 2GiB RAM and an old Radeon 9600 card (11 years old!).