My AMD videocard blew, I reinstalled my only other card which is an older nvidia gt640 but now I cannot boot TW at all (cannot boot TW installer or Live either!). All the guidance is about working this dilemma from within the same booted system which is not an option.
I can however work from another booted system or from a rescue DVD by direct manipulation or chroot calls.
How can I get nouveau driver into control? I do not really need the nvidia driver as such.
Hi!
Need more info.
Possibly too old GeForce GT 640 with GF116 without UEFI support:
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:UEFI#Nvidia_UEFI_GOP
Use Leap 15.6 instead of 15.4.
The nouveau kernel module is not provided by kernel-default in Leap. If kernel-default-extra is not installed, you’ll need to install it, whether in 15.4 or 15.6.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf and/or various files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ created by NVidia driver installation must be removed. This is supposed to occur by following the uninstallation process provided in NVidia’s driver installation instructions.
Using an NVidia GPU on pure FOSS has traditionally been supposed to work competently just like with AMD and Intel GPUs - automatically, but NVidia driver installation makes it impossible without first fully eradicating NVidia driver additions, and reversing its modifications.
An optional “experimental” reverse-engineered nouveau DDX display driver may be used, except possibly with NVidia’s current/latest generation of products, but the newer technology default DIX display driver is supposed to work OOTB just as well for all NVidia GPUs. “open” drivers for the G06 products not too long ago became available.
Fallback X drivers fbdev or vesa should work, but with resolution limited to 800x600 or 1024x768, and s l o w l y.
I’m using Tumbleweed and for the time being let’s forget what’s on the hard drives. I boot with the latest TW install DVD and I have an nvidia GT640 card on the motheboard. What do I do to get an installer GUI?
Once that is fixed I can try to salvage an existing TW installation or if necessary make a new one.
Does your computer support UEFI? If yes, is CSM (legacy mode booting) enabled in the BIOS? If yes, is what is on the internal(s) drive now configured to use UEFI?
How exactly did this “install DVD” come into possession? Downloaded and burned .iso of DVD image? Details please. Written to DVD? Written to USB? What program did you write with? Purchased somewhere?
What exactly happens when you try to boot your “install DVD”? Do you use your BBS menu for choosing what to boot? Details please…
Install compatible videocard - which support UEFI GOP (if problem is in that).
Another options: possibly hardware was damaged by electric shock or your PSU is dying.
Thu, 05 Sep 2024 09:43:46 +0000
Nikolai Nikolaevskii via openSUSE Forums noreply@forums.opensuse.org :
Install compatible videocard
I always considered that every video card should be compatible as far
as any installer is concened using either proprietary or prerebly
generic drivers as initial ways.
No UEFI here
Another options: possibly hardware was damaged by electric shock or your PSU is dying.
Thanks for chiming-in, I tried a brand new PSU as well. As soon as I
installed a used AMD hd5700 the problem vanished so the cause was
without any doubt the nvidia GT640 card …since given away 
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