After upgrade to 15.2 from 15.1 Nvidia driver not working

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I upgraded my working system 15.1 to 15.2 and nvidia driver making problems. My card 8500gt and for 15.2 there is no driver in Nvidia repository(x11-nvidia-G03 one) after I found one communlty repository for G03 driver for 8500gt but that one also didnt worked then I removed that and tryed Hard way to install .run driver from nvidia.com installed latest one and it finished without errors.I did mkinitrd also.Put nomodeset to grub also novoue is blacklisted.When boot always screen goes to black screen cant use X. Tryed to delete xorg.conf didnt helped. Checked xorg var logs driver seems loaded without problem no errors…any clue?

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Hi
If you have nomodeset in the grub line that won’t help, remove and see how that goes.

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Nvidia-G03 (340) will not work without patching anymore.

See:
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/549097-Black-screen-after-installing-proprietary-NVIDIA-driver-340-108
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/539260-Nvidia-G03-for-Leap-15-2

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Thanks for info! After installed patched proprietary driver now can use KDE again. But why nobody doing good repo(patched) for us with old nvidia cards. I tryed one community repo for nvidia GL03 but didnt worked.

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The G03 driver is not supported by nvidia anymore, so you are using an old unsupported driver.

I Think its no good idea to build rpms with unsupported drivers…

On Leap 15.3 it will not work anymore.

Tip:
Buy a cheap new graphic card.

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I not thinking to buy anything unless its stopped working :slight_smile: Not need support…just need something working enough…You mean on leap 15.3 patched driver also will not work ?

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The G03 isn’t supported doesn’t mean you can’t run KDE anymore. I have had that issue on three machines. Same, after upgrade to 15.2 I had to go for Nouveau. Only the the Nouveau mesa driver (3D) is marked as “experimental”. So I did avoid Mesa-dri-nouveau. On all of them I could start KDE after entering YaST (me being lazy) in tty1 or any other console as root searching for “nivdia” and doing some choosing.

I have to admit I replaced two of them with more current types - one of them I wanted to install today! (https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/550690-nvidia-Repositories-gone-missing). The new GTX1650 (sadly) just as my old homeserver currently run without the nvidia drivers. This is my home server:

:~> inxi -G
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2] driver: nouveau v: kernel 
           Display: server: X.org 1.20.3 driver: nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa tty: 271x63 
           Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable in console. Try -G --display

~> zypper se -di "nvidia"
S | Name               | Summary                                                      | Type
--+--------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+------
i | libdrm_nouveau2    | Userspace interface for Kernel DRM services for NVIDIA chips | Paket
i | libvdpau1          | VDPAU wrapper library                                        | Paket
i | openSUSE-2020-1062 | Security update for the Linux Kernel                         | Patch
i | openSUSE-2021-241  | Security update for the Linux Kernel                         | Patch
i | xf86-video-nouveau | Beschleunigter Open-Source-Treiber für nVidia-Karten         | Paket

If you don’t need any 3D acceleration you should be fine even with 15.ff.

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Yea I know but I not prefer Nouveau because of bad performance and some bugs…Patched proprietary driver is fine what to do…My setup like TV multimedia system

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When writing only nouveau, you are not making clear to what you refer. There are two nouveau drivers. Please see this for explanation how to explain what you mean, and how to choose the newer technology, upstream default for X: modesetting (assuming it was not already selected). “Nouveau” is not required for NVidia GPUs except for some brand new models, and for true antiques, those around two decades or more old (mainly AGP and old PCI models, and mainly not PCIe or newer PCI models). Both FOSS X drivers require use of the nouveau kernel driver, no blacklisting.

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Sorry, I am not so familiar with the driver technology. Thanks for the link. I was just suggesting that the proprietary driver is not absolutely necessary to get X or KDE working. When I was left without G03 I started searching in YaST and got to my above mentioned setup. My reference to Nouveau was about the warning that comes if you do not uncheck the package Mesa-dri-nouveau

│Mesa-dri-nouveau
│WARNING: Nouveau DRI/3D driver selected.
│This driver is considered experimental and is known to have issues with
│applications that use certain 3D acceleration features of modern
│NVIDIA hardware.
(...)

I don’t need it, anyway. For my homeserver I don’t care as I rarely use the GUI and for my desktop - well it works but I am hoping for nvidia repository to be fixed and get G05.:wink: