Nivida 920m on Leap 42.2

English Hardware
#1

(Sorry for my english like “google translator”)

Good Morning,

I have a nvidia 920m video card in a Dell inspiron.
Yesterday I installed openSUSE Leap 42.2 and was able to install Nvidia drivers.
But when I run the command to “enable” it on the X server:
nvidia-xconfig
the xorg.conf file (so far it seems that there was none) is in / etc / X11 / and then the server stops working Restart.
It gives Fatal Error in X and I can only get the interface again after I remove xorg.conf.

How to fix this?

Thank you very much

#2

Please post:

/sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -EiA3 'vga|3d|display'

I think, you have an Optimus System, Intel-Nvidia Card.

And please delete the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
This file is not needed any more.

#3

Result:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics [8086:1616] (rev 09)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:06ae]
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915

08:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GK208M [GeForce 920M] [10de:1299] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:06ae]
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

#4

The “normal” Nvidia Driver is not working with your Cards, so please delete them.

You have an Optimus System supported by bumblebee:
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_Bumblebee

#5

Hm, so how i can delete completely the nvidia card drivers? With yast is possible?

#6

I do not know, how you have installed it…

#7

I used:

zypper ar -f http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/42.2/ NVIDIA

zypper inr

#8

Delete the Repo in Yast----Repositories and delete all Packkages with nvidia in the Name in Yast----Install/Remove Software.

#9

Ok, thanks.

#10

I don’t know if this will help but from the standard leap 42.2 install I added the nvidia repo to yast’s list and installed via yast. It offered several versions of their driver. I installed the highest numbered one. I have a 610 card. The result was crisper text on the desktop but the open driver wasn’t bad. I changed the driver for other reasons.

There is one downside. I use VLC and the standard repo version has segmentation faults so wont run. A search on here will find some recent solutions to this problem. In my case it was to use the beta version from packman as other suggestions didn’t work.

Once I had made these changes I disabled both repo’s in yast and also their refresh. If you do re install via yast this way I would advise doing this as well once things are installed.

Pembroke - a utility used for screen handling during boot also generated segmentation faults but that may be down to it rather than the use of an nvidia driver. This has not caused me any problems at all.

John

#11

He has added, enabled and installed the Nvidia Repo /Nvidia Drivers.

But he has not only an Nvida Card inside, also an Intel Graphics.
The Nvida Driver from the Nvidia Repo only works when the Intel Graphic Card is disabled by Bios/UEFI.