GeForce 210 nvidia drivers

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I’m having a lot of issues with desktop, and I think they may be due the noveau driver.
I was trying to replace it with the nvidia driver, but it seems to be none for this card in 15.1


tutatis:~ # lspci |grep VGA
23:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)
tutatis:~ # lscpu | grep Arch
Architecture:        x86_64
tutatis:~ # zypper se x11-video-nvidiaG0*
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S | Name                | Summary                                                 | Type   
--+---------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+--------
  | x11-video-nvidiaG03 | NVIDIA graphics driver for GeForce 8xxx and newer GPUs  | package
  | x11-video-nvidiaG04 | NVIDIA graphics driver for GeForce 400 series and newer | package
  | x11-video-nvidiaG05 | NVIDIA graphics driver for GeForce 600 series and newer | package
tutatis:~ #

Any ideas what can I do?

regards

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Hi
You need to try the 340.107 driver installed the hard way, if that doesn’t work it needs patching. But will always need to install the hard way.

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Before going through all the trouble to try non-FOSS software, try upstream’s default.

sudo zypper rm xf86-video-nouveau

and restart should be sufficient to make the switch. It’s what I use with the same GPU as yours:

> rpm -qa | grep xf86-v
xf86-video-fbdev-0.5.0-lp151.1.2.x86_64
xf86-video-vesa-2.4.0-lp151.2.3.x86_64
> xrandr | egrep 'onnect|creen|\*' | grep -v disconn | sort -r
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 4480 x 1440, maximum 8192 x 8192
HDMI-1 connected 1920x1200+2560+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 519mm x 324mm
DVI-I-1 connected primary 2560x1440+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 598mm x 336mm
   2560x1440     59.95*+
   1920x1200     59.95*+
> inxi -V | head -n1
inxi 3.0.36-00 (2019-08-14)
> inxi -GxxSza
System:    Host: hp945 Kernel: 4.12.14-lp151.28.13-default x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.4.0
           parameters: root=bleep ipv6.disable=1 net.ifnames=0 noresume mitigations=auto consoleblank=0
           vga=791 video=1280x720@60 video=1024x768@60 video=1440x900@60 3
           Desktop: KDE 3 wm: kwin dm: startx Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.1
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0
           chip ID: 10de:0a65
           Display: server: X.Org 1.20.3 driver: modesetting resolution: 2560x1440~60Hz, 1920x1200~60Hz
           OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 7.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.3.2 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
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I have the same card

howard@HP-oS15KDE:~> sudo lspci |grep VGA
[sudo] password for root: 
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)
howard@HP-oS15KDE:~>

and am using the nvidia driver nvidia-computeG03 version 340.107-lp151.17.1 from the openSUSE nvidia repository at obs://build.suse.de/Proprietary:X11:Drivers
I used YaST to add the repository and install the driver. It works fine through kernel updates.

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Care to show output of “zypper lr -u”?

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It is:

howard@HP-oS15KDE:~> zypper lr -u
Repository priorities are without effect. All enabled repositories share the same priority.

# | Alias                      | Name                        | Enabled | GPG Check | Refresh | URI                                                              
--+----------------------------+-----------------------------+---------+-----------+---------+------------------------------------------------------------------
1 | download.nvidia.com-leap_1 | nVidia Graphics Drivers     | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/15.1                   
2 | opensuse-guide.org-repo_1  | Libdvdcss Repository        | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | http://opensuse-guide.org/repo/openSUSE_Leap_15.1/               
3 | packman.inode.at-suse_1    | Packman Repository          | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | http://packman.inode.at/suse/openSUSE_Leap_15.1/                 
4 | repo-non-oss               | Non-OSS Repository          | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.1/repo/non-oss/
5 | repo-oss                   | Main Repository             | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/15.1/repo/oss/    
6 | repo-update                | Main Update Repository      | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.1/oss                
7 | repo-update-non-oss        | Update Repository (Non-Oss) | Yes     | (r ) Yes  | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.1/non-oss/           
howard@HP-oS15KDE:~>
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Simply install G03. It contains what you need.

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I did it. It seems to work fine