Hey everyone,
I’m new to the openSUSE community and could really use some help getting Tumbleweed up and running on my desktop. I’ve been a long-time Ubuntu and Windows user, and recently dabbled with Arch Linux on my laptop. I wanted to make the switch to openSUSE Tumbleweed for its up-to-date packages (what I don’t like about Ubuntu) and stability with tools like Snapper working out of the box. I plan to try to install hyprland (that I use on my laptop) or maybe sway if hyprland doesn’t cooperate.
My System:
- GPU: Nvidia 4070 Ti Super
- CPU: Intel i7 13th Gen
so far here are the issues I encountered, which are most probably caused by my nvidia card…
First, I tried installing openSUSE using the network image, but I ended up with an old installer that had a blue background and square stacking dialogue boxes. Not sure why if anyone has any idea…
I then switched to the offline image and managed to install openSUSE with GNOME. However, things got a bit wonky. GNOME was running on Wayland and it was super unstable. For example, clicking on a CPU core in the System Monitor would freeze my system, right clicking on the Gnome Console would freeze or crash and log me out. Seems like context menus are broken?
I figured that the instability was probably caused because of the nouveau drivers not playing nice with Wayland so I followed the official documentation to install the proprietary Nvidia drivers, but hit a few issues:
After rebooting, I was logged into IceWM instead of GNOME, and I couldn’t select GNOME as my DE on the login screen.
I installed nvidia-video-G06
using Zypper, but ran into version conflicts when trying to install other nvidia packages like compute
or compute-utils
. I was trying to install them one by one so maybe using a single zypper command would help here, I’ll try next time.
Nvidia’s website recommends driver version 550, but openSUSE installed version 580. For a while I thought that might be the issue but after a few failed attempts, I installed EndeavourOS and got Nvidia drivers version 580 working along with Hyprland. This gives me hope that I can get it working on openSUSE too! Anyway the previous issues helped me familiarize myself with snapper and I really liked it, so I want to make openSUSE work!
I’m planning to try again later this week, and would really appreciate it if anyone has any advices for me!
I’m thinking of trying the installation of nvidia drivers “the hard way” next, but I’m still not sure what caused the issues I encountered in my previous attempts.
I also saw that the Open GPU kernel module were available, maybe trying them would help?
I also read the nvidia troubleshooting page which said the drivers are not currently compatible with Wayland but it seems a bit out of date (08-2020). It worked well on EndeavourOS and the issues mentioned on that page does not match what I experienced.
I’d really appreciate any advice or suggestions you all might have. Thanks a bunch!
Cheers