Nvidia card version?

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#1

Hi,

This is so stupid, why cant there be a logical versioning to the video cards.
I just don’t understand what driver to install.

My card is:

Accept-123:~ # hwinfo --gfxcard
35: PCI 200.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)             
  [Created at pci.319]
  Unique ID: B35A.Z1K5+Ql+lc9
  Parent ID: 3hqH._4Jk6Hys5IC
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.0/0000:02:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:02:00.0
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "nVidia GT200 [GeForce GTX 260]"
  Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x05e2 "GT200 [GeForce GTX 260]"
  Revision: 0xa1
  Driver: "nouveau"
  Driver Modules: "drm"
  Memory Range: 0xf5000000-0xf5ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xf2000000-0xf3ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0xac00-0xac7f (rw)
  Memory Range: 0xf6c80000-0xf6cfffff (ro,non-prefetchable,disabled)
  IRQ: 24 (1372 events)
  I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw)
  Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd000005E2sv00000000sd00000000bc03sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: nvidiafb is not active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nvidiafb"
  Driver Info #1:
    Driver Status: nouveau is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nouveau"
  Driver Info #2:
    Driver Status: nvidia is not active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nvidia"
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #11 (PCI bridge)

Primary display adapter: #35
Accept-123:~ # lspci | grep VGA
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT200 [GeForce GTX 260] (rev a1)

My best guess is that I should use the G01 variant

As I understand it there is a kernel driver to install depending in the card, problem with that is that the kernel i downgraded what ever that will impact.
Would it be better to download the driver from nvidia and compile ? or should I go with the older kernel ? Not sure what the older kernel will do, I will most probably not notice anything.

#2

Well, your GTX260 is supported by the G01, G02, and G03 driver. So you can choose.:wink:

As I understand it there is a kernel driver to install depending in the card, problem with that is that the kernel i downgraded what ever that will impact.
Would it be better to download the driver from nvidia and compile ? or should I go with the older kernel ? Not sure what the older kernel will do, I will most probably not notice anything.

So you’re using a newer kernel than included in the distro?

If you are not using the standard openSUSE kernel, you have to download the driver directly from the NVIDIA homepage. The RPMs from the nvidia repo will only work with the kernel included in openSUSE, so if you want to use those, you’ll have to downgrade to this kernel.

See also https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers and https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_the_hard_way for help.

#3

LOL, so it is supported by all three. I will have a try then.

I was assuming I had a newer kernel, only using the standard kernel from openSUSE, but I read something about it in another thread. I will check what I have before going ahead.
Thanks