I did a distro upgrade from 13.1 to 13.2 Everything is working well (sound, internet, etc.) except I’m experiencing some difficulties with my graphics card and desktop effects.
If I remove the libvdpau_va_gl1 lib it launches but not without error messages
> nvidia-settings
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_va_gl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0".
I suspect the problem has something to do with this
> zypper se -is nvidia
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository
--+-------------------------------+---------+-----------------------+--------+------------------------
i | nvidia-computeG03 | package | 340.76-39.1 | x86_64 | (System Packages)
i | nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-default | package | 340.76_k3.16.6_2-39.1 | x86_64 | nVidia Graphics Drivers
i | nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop | package | 340.76_k3.11.6_4-39.1 | x86_64 | (System Packages)
i | nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop | package | 340.76_k3.16.6_2-39.1 | x86_64 | nVidia Graphics Drivers
i | nvidia-glG03 | package | 340.76-39.1 | x86_64 | (System Packages)
i | nvidia-uvm-gfxG03-kmp-default | package | 340.76_k3.16.6_2-39.1 | x86_64 | nVidia Graphics Drivers
i | nvidia-uvm-gfxG03-kmp-desktop | package | 340.76_k3.11.6_4-39.1 | x86_64 | (System Packages)
i | nvidia-uvm-gfxG03-kmp-desktop | package | 340.76_k3.16.6_2-39.1 | x86_64 | nVidia Graphics Drivers
i | x11-video-nvidiaG03 | package | 340.76-39.1 | x86_64 | (System Packages)
i | nvidia-settings | package | 325.15-1.3 | x86_64 | (System Packages)
i.e. some confusion between system packages and the official nVidia packages. I have tried to remove the “System Packages” (not quite sure what they are) by disabling the nVidia repo and remove them but with no luck.
My graphics card is a GeForce GTX 650 and I’m running KDE 4.14.6.
Yes, you still have nvidia kmp’s for 13.1 installed, and you have a very old nvidia-settings installed.
And your other nvidia driver packages (those that say they come from “(System Packages)”) seem to still be the 13.1 versions as well, those do not work on 13.2!
sudo zypper in x11-video-nvidiaG03 nvidia-computeG03 nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop nvidia-glG03 nvidia-uvm-gfxG03-kmp-desktop
Please note, that you don’t need the -kmp-default packages if you are using kernel-desktop (they are intended only for kernel-default as the name implies). And the package nvidia-settings has been removed from Packman nearly 2 years ago. nvidia-settings is included in the standard driver packages anyway and always has been.
The only issue remaining is with nvidia-settings. Zypper tells me
…
i.e. no nvidia-settings. But
which nvidia-settings
/usr/bin/nvidia-settings
and it runs!
And where is the issue then?
As I wrote already, nvidia-settings is part of the nvidia driver packages, and always has been.
There’s no need to install it separately, and it is a bad idea to have it in a different version than the driver anyway.
That’s the reason why it got dropped from Packman nearly 2! years ago, I was the one who took the initiative to propose its deletion back then.
