Issue with NVIDIA drivers and three external monitors using Open Suse Leap 15.5 on an HP OMEN 15 Laptop (Solved)
Secure boot is off. Display driver is X11.
Could not get displays to work on third monitor.
I uninstalled all existing NVIDIA Drivers.
Then followed the instructions here to install the G06 version of the proprietary NVDIA drivers using YAST - SDB:NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE Wiki.
zypper se -i nvidia
S | Name | Summary | Type
—±------------------------------±----------------------------------------------------------------------±-------
i | kernel-firmware-nvidia | Kernel firmware files for Nvidia Tegra and graphics drivers | package
i | nvidia-compute-G06 | NVIDIA driver for computing with GPGPU | package
i | nvidia-compute-G06-32bit | 32bit NVIDIA driver for computing with GPGPU | package
i | nvidia-driver-G06-kmp-default | NVIDIA graphics driver kernel module for GeForce 700 series and newer | package
i | nvidia-gl-G06 | NVIDIA OpenGL libraries for OpenGL acceleration | package
i | nvidia-gl-G06-32bit | 32bit NVIDIA OpenGL libraries for OpenGL acceleration | package
i+ | nvidia-utils-G06 | NVIDIA driver tools | package
i | nvidia-video-G06 | NVIDIA graphics driver for GeForce 700 series and newer | package
i | nvidia-video-G06-32bit | 32bit NVIDIA graphics driver for GeForce 700 series and newer | package
i+ | openSUSE-repos-Leap-NVIDIA | openSUSE NVIDIA repository definitions | package
zypper se -i dock
S | Name | Summary | Type
—±-------±----------------------------------------±-------
i+ | nvdock | Tray icon for launching NVIDIA Settings | package
Still no joy as the NVIDIA were not being loaded (using X11 and not Wayland).
Checked the driver config using inxi -G. No driver for GPU.
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] driver: NA
Reason: Suse Prime needed to switch drivers: SDB:NVIDIA SUSE Prime - openSUSE Wiki
Follow the instructions including deleting the X11 files.
Then run “prime-select boot nvidia” as per the instructions.
Restart.
Check to see if the NVIDIA driver is in use.
inxi -G
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] driver: nvidia
** v: 550.120**
Device-3: Quanta HP Wide Vision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.5 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting,nvidia dri: iris gpu: i915,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
resolution: 1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: 1920x1080~60Hz 3: 2560x1440~60Hz
4: 1920x1080~60Hz
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 550.120 renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
Ti/PCIe/SSE2
Operating System: openSUSE Leap 15.5
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.9
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.103.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 5.14.21-150500.55.83-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz
Memory: 31.1 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: OMEN by HP Laptop 15-dc0xxx