I need to replace my ati 5850 because fan is going out.
Will the Nvidia 580 run 11.3 3g?
PNY XLR8 GTX 580 1536 MB GDDR5
Thanks for your assistance!
The proprietary nVidia driver will support it: NVIDIA DRIVERS 260.19.36 Certified
BUT you may have problems with both the ‘nv’ and ‘nouveau’ open source drivers, as when I type “man nv” and “man nouveau” I see no mention of it.
Hence if ‘nomodeset’ (forcing ‘nv’ driver use instead of ‘nouveau’ ) does not work, you may be forced to boot with a VESA or FBDEV driver, and then install the proprietary nVidia driver.
How experienced are you in the installation of proprietary nVidia graphic drivers ?
Note the 32-bit openSUSE-11.3 KDE currently has problems with the proprietary nVidia driver but the 64-bit openSUSE-11.3 KDE does not have same problems.
I am familiar with installing ATI drivers however please_ask_again has made that super easy. I may be rusty.
So what you are saying is that if I use the “hard way” and install the nVidia proprietary drivers on my 64bit system I should be ok?
Utlimately, YES. But I am also cautioning that after the initial boot with the new card could be tricky, because your driver is set up for an ATI card.
If it were me, with the ATI card still running (hopefully) I would download the CORRECT nvidia proprietary driver to /home/yourusername/ . Be certain you get the correct one ! I would triple check to ensure I had the base-developement package installed via yast (which gets C and make) and also kernel-source and kernel-syms of the exact same version of my kernel. I would also install the program ‘midnight commander’ (which is launched from a terminal with command: mc ) so that if necessary it is easy to edit files in a text mode with ‘mc’ editor. I might even install a text irc chat program in case I wanted help over IRC channel from text mode (as a super precaution).
Then I would switch OFF my pc. I would change graphic cards.
Then I would boot the PC to run level 3 by typing ‘3’ in the grub options line. I would also use the boot code ‘nomodeset’ in the grub options line (in addition to ‘3’) so as to set the stage for installing the proprietary nvidia driver.
I would login to this full screen text mode as a regular user. I would then type 'su - ’ to switch to root permissions.
I would then run YaST and follow the openSUSE release notes guidance:
In the rare cases when loading the DRM module from initrd is a general problem and unrelated to KMS, it is even possible to disable loading of the DRM module in initrd completely. For this set the NO_KMS_IN_INITRD sysconfig variable to yes via YAST, which then recreates initrd afterwards. Reboot your machine.
… in my experience it is not so rare. This can be done using the text mode yast by typing:
yast
and navigate with spacebar, arrow key, tab, alt key … note some example pix here: SDB:Configuring graphics cards - openSUSE
I would then remove any rpm with ‘fglrx’ in the file name (a search : rpm -qa ‘fglrx’ #should tell you if there are any - if so remove). Then I would build the proprietary nVidia driver ‘the hardway’. I would also remove (with a backup) any custom /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and/or any /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-xxxxxxxx file(s) edits (but keep the default files there).
Then I would reboot the PC with: shutdown -r now
Ideally it should boot to the proprietary nVidia driver.
I assume you have a 64-bit openSUSE install ? Again, note the 32-bit KDE-4.4.4 on openSUSE-11.3 currently has problems with the proprietary nVidia driver.
Well thank you for the detailed reply. I will listen to a noisy fan for a bit while I digest it.
Yes my install is 64 bit.