Do I need upgrade nvidia card before switch to Leap 16?

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Hi folks, please be patient and let me ask (especially I write the post second time because Forum drop the first one).
Historically we had G04 G05 and G06 drivers for nvidia graphics. This is due to nvidia group stopped support of proprietary driver, that is clear. The story has a new turn in Leap 16 where G04 and G05 driver support dropped. I had couple day of headache with Leap 16 and graphics based on Kepler chipset and finally rolled back to 15.6. Therefore, one should switch to Tubleweed or stuck with nouveau driver which is still not recommended for software which use graphical acceleration, yep? So the question is: should one upgrade hardware before system update to Leap 16? That reminds me Windows style though.
Many thanks in advance.

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Which graphics card do you have?

inxi -Gaz

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For example Geforce GT640 (NVIDIA NVE7 (GK107) ) Other station has Quattro K4000

Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK107 [GeForce GT 640] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia
    v: 470.256.02 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: N/A
    status: unknown device ID pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max:
    lanes: 16 ports: active: none off: DVI-D-1 empty: DVI-D-2,HDMI-A-1,VGA-1
    bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0fc1 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: ARC Camera driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 3-7:4 chip-ID: 05a3:9331
    class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.11 compositor: xfwm v: 4.20.0 driver:
    X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa alternate: nouveau,nv
    gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1200 s-size: <missing: xdpyinfo>
  Monitor-1: DVI-D-1 mapped: DVI-D-0 note: disabled model: Dell U2410
    serial: <filter> built: 2010 res: 1920x1200 hz: 60 dpi: 94 gamma: 1.2
    size: 518x324mm (20.39x12.76") diag: 611mm (24.1") ratio: 16:10 modes:
    max: 1920x1200 min: 640x480
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.256.02 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GT
    640/PCIe/SSE2 direct-render: Yes
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Yes, you’ll need to upgrade for NVIDIA driver support.

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@roginovicci Hi, that would also bring into question your overall hardware setup… Does the system(s) support UEFI, does the CPU meet requirements etc?

If it does, then Pascal arch should be fine it is EOL, but G06 drivers have a few more years left…

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Thank you for reply. I’m running Xeon e5-2666 v3 based system. I mean that is sad to see that one should now check hardware capability before upgrade… Being with Opensuse for last ten year it’s a bit unusual. Maybe I should return back to Arch :wink:

You say GTX 1050 supported in G06 as well?

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@roginovicci It should be, see the Supported Products tab https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/259042/

You can always check the PCI ID’s from the list here as well https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/580.119.02/README/supportedchips.html

Why shouldn’t the new Leap release have newer (and security) requirements?

I believe you CPU should be fine, but see the Release Notes of all the changes and requirements…
https://doc.opensuse.org/release-notes/x86_64/openSUSE/Leap/16.0/html/release-notes-leap-160/

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It’s not really an openSUSE-specific issue, nor something new. You’ll find the same with Arch.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 is based on the Pascal architecture, so supported by the closed G06 drivers.

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Many thanx for explanations to all!

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