Broke Tumbleweed System When I Installed "x11-video-nvidiaG05" Driver - Help!

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Hi,

I’ve got this 12 year old desktop with openSUSE Tumbelweed KDE 64Bit.
I have an old nVidia GPU graphic card.
I tried the easy way install of x11-video-nvidiaG05 but after reboot I get dumped to console?

I tried to uninstall the x11-video-nvidiaG05 driver in boot console by doing below:

# zypper rm x11-video-nvidiaG05
# zypper se -ir NVIDIA
# mkinitrd

Is there something else I must do to take out nVidia driver and use the nouveau driver again?
Let me know, thanks!

Jesse

EDIT: How do I learn what nVidia GPU graphic card I have? Some terminal command to do that?

EDIT2: Never mind, it’s shown on the easy way nVidia page

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Hi Again,

Card is an old nVidia GeForce GT 240…
…which driver is recommended for above GPU card on Tumbeweed?

Thanks!

Jesse

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Hi
Not the proprietary one… nouveau only… unless your prepared to look at patching the 340.108 driver and install manually even if it will patch…

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Sorry, but how do I reinstall the nouveau display driver in boot console?

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Hi
Uninstall th nvidia rpms, make sure there is no blacklist file in /etc/modprobe.d that blacklists the nouveau driver eg nvidia.conf run mkinitrd to rebuild initrd and reboot…

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That actually worked, thanks!

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Really? I have multiple older Tesla GPUs and a Fermi that don’t require either xf86-video-nouveau or proprietary X driver for competent KMS operation. They all use the upstream default “modesetting DDX” provided by the Xorg server since version 1.17.x, used automatically when the (optional) xf86-video-nouveau and (optional) proprietary drivers are not installed! What’s special about a GT 240 that it can’t use the (non-reverse-engineered) default?

Jesse, the inxi cli utility from the TW OSS repo will you all kinds of things about your hardware. Try the -G or -Gxxx options for your graphics card.