Hi. I just did a clean install of 15.6 with internet connection, so have kernel 6.4.0-150600.23.38-default, with nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-kmp-default (570.86.16_k6.4.0_150600.23.33-150600.3.34.1) installed. The installation of the nvidia-open-driver is new to me, as it’s usually the nouveau driver installed as default.
Typically, for me, I would disable the nouveau driver and install an NVIDIA driver the “hard way” via script. However, I would like to adopt any new methods available.
The nvidia-open-driver isn’t quite working for my setup. It’s only seeing a single monitor at 1920 x 1080 77Hz, instead of the native 1920 x 1200, and second monitor of 2560 x 1440. Even with the NVIDIA proprietary driver, I needed a special /etc/X11/xorg_conf file to handle the second monitor, as it’s through a KVM, which prevents the system from reading the monitor HID.
Is there a way to get the system to probe the monitor with the nvidia-open-driver so that 1920 x 1200 is available? Any chance the nvidia-open-driver will eventually work with two monitors, with some of the things I had to do in xorg_conf below?
Below is the xorg_conf file I was using with the NVIDIA script install. Do I need to install nvidia-drivers-G06 to have it work (as nvidia-open-driver doesn’t use xorg_conf?)? And is it better to keep this /etc/X11/xorg_conf file or split up the contents between /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ 50-device.conf, 50-monitor.conf, and 50-screen.conf?
nvidia-settings is in nvidia-utils-G06, once nvidia-drivers-G06 is installed?
Are you using the proprietary NVIDIA driver? Or nvidia-open-driver? When I drop my xorg.conf file in, which I used successfully with proprietary, it worked fine, but with nvidia-open-driver, the system boots to command line, which makes me think nvidia-open-driver doesn’t use xorg.conf?
And did you get nvidia-settings from nvidia-utils?
nvidia-settings -v
nvidia-settings: version 570.86.16
The NVIDIA Settings tool.
This program is used to configure the NVIDIA Linux graphics driver.
For more detail, please see the nvidia-settings(1) man page.
But I do not use a switch, my monitors are directly to my Card.
Ah, I do see it as something separate to install. I’ll try that later, to see if it works with nvidia-open-driver, but ultimately, it seems like I need the proprietary driver.
This, of course, is with nvidia-open-driver, not the proprietary driver…
% xrandr
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 1920 x 1080, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 1920 x 1080
default connected 1920x1080+0+0 0mm x 0mm
1920x1080 77.00*
Can you show the output from inxi -GSaz these days an Xorg.conf shouldn’t be needed as the system settings (monitors.xml) should detect it’s presence and adjust as required.
At this point, I’d like to know if I should use the nvidia-open-driver or switch to the proprietary one. From a brief reading, it sounds like the nvidia-open-driver is where things are headed.
Currently, the auto detection doesn’t seem to be working with the monitor directly connected. The second monitor, connected through a KVM, isn’t seen at all.
For my previous install, I created an xorg.conf file with both monitors directly connected, then edited the xorg.conf to force monitor/screen resolutions, orientations, and disabled the auto detect , as I wanted the second monitor always active, even though the KVM switch was set to the secondary computer. If I didn’t disable auto detect, the second monitor would disappear, due to auto detect, and when I switch the KVM back to the primary computer, the monitor wouldn’t be available until a reboot was performed.
@linuxvinh Then use nvidia-settings as your user, setup how you want, save the file to your $HOME, then as root user copy this to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia.conf
I would also add the following kernel options to grub fbdev=1 nvidia_drm.modeset=1 with YaST Bootloader.
The open driver should work fine since you have a Quadro T600 (Turing)…
I installed nvidia-settings. Upon running it, it doesn’t seem like it’s working. The menu on the left only as two items: Application Profiles and nvidia-settings Configuration. In previous usage, there’s X Server Information, X Server Display Configuration, X Screen 0 and sub items, GPU 0 and sub items, etc.
When I search for nvidia in Yast2, I have the following installed:
While the proprietary driver has dependencies for the video/X11 packages, the open driver has none, so for instance the following are not installed on the OP’s system (see post 9):
@linuxvinh what about firmware for the open driver kernel-firmware-nvidia-gsp-G06
I’m on Tumbleweed with the open driver installed by the run file, but a) only as Prime Render Offload and b) running Wayland these days… My tests a few days ago with my T400 (display driver) and the RTX4000 where also fine.
Before I commit, what’s the difference between kernel-firmware-nvidia-gsp-G06 and kernel-firmware-nvidia-gspx-G06 and kernel-firmware-nvidia-gspx-G06-cuda? Does it really matter?
After installing nvidia-video-G06 and other packages listed above, the system booted fine to graphical. nvidia-settings displays the expected information. Primary monitor is 1920 x 1200.
Upon reading more about kernel-firmware-nvidia-gspx-G06-cuda, it looked to be worth installing. It installs gsp.bin. gsp being Graphical System Processor, which can offload some of the work previously done by the CPU onto the GPU, which should improve graphics performance.
Installing kernel-firmware-nvidia-gspx-G06-cuda installed only that. Size is still blank.
After this, I used nvidia-settings to write a new xorg.conf. I patched it with my specific setup lines, which handles my secondary monitor through a KVM. (The secondary monitor, being through a KVM, means the graphics card can’t detect the HID of the monitor. Also, switching away to a second computer with the KVM will also cause the primary computer to lose the secondary monitor, so auto-detect is disabled and all resolutions are preset.)