Keeping support for “x11-video-nvidiaG05”?

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I dared to perform another distribution upgrade also for my openSUSE Tumbleweed configuration as usual.
The kernel version 6.14.2 was also installed accordingly.
I became curious if selected graphical desktops would still work for my graphics card which they did with the kernel version 6.13.8 so far.
I would appreciate a nicer display interface than a text console.
:eyes: Unfortunately, I got surprised that the version 6.13.8 vanished from my GRUB boot menu.
(I hoped that my zypper system configuration should prevent such missing entries.)
:crystal_ball:

  • Are there any chances left over to reactivate the previously working version?
  • Which with delay will current Linux versions become supported also by a corresponding software package?
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The 6.13.8 kernel is still available in the history 20250329 repo

Not clear to me what the second question means. According to this mailing list message the G05 drivers should be compatible with the 6.14.x kernels. If not so, please open a bug report.

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Thanks for such information.

Do you expect that a software package like “x11-video-nvidiaG05-470.256.02-74.1.x86_64.rpm” (or nvidia-gfxG05-kmp-default-470.256.02_k6.13.6_1-74.3.x86_64.rpm) would still be usable together with the kernel version 6.14.2?

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Yes, according to the message from the maintainer of Nvidia packages for openSUSE (Stefan Dirsch)

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Wrong repo - use Nvidia’s one.

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I am usually working with the desired repository data.

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I am curious how my observations fit to the referenced information.

The following command succeeded based on data from the mentioned history repository.

Sonne:~ # zypper in --oldpackage kernel-default-6.13.8 kernel-default-devel-6.13.8

:eyes: I observed also that these old packages would get immediately deleted somehow if I would dare to restart the kernel version 6.14.2 again.

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Edit /etc/zypp/zypp.conf so that the following line reads, for instance:

multiversion.kernels = latest,latest-1,latest-2,running,oldest

instead of “oldest” you can also write the exact version you want to keep, I think it is 6.13.8-1.1

BTW, there is another user here possibly having trouble with G05 driver and 6.14.2 kernel.

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I adjusted the system configuration entry “multiversion.kernels” another bit.

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:thought_balloon: It seems that the software package “nvidia-gfxG05-kmp-default-470.256.02_k6.14.1_1-74.16.x86_64.rpm” does not work with the kernel version 6.14.2 so far as expected at the moment.

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:eyes: See also the related clarification approach “Nvidia G05 driver compile error nvidia-drm/nvidia-drm-drv.c”.

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Under which circumstances should relevant modules usually be added also to the initrd of current kernel versions? :thinking:

Examples:

  • nvidia-modeset
  • nvidia-uvm
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:eyes: See also the related clarification approach “Reactivate graphical display together with Nvidia modules for Linux versions ≥ 6.14.2”.