NVIDIA driver for older card

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Greetings All,

I have just installed 15.2, and I am having issues with the Nouveau drivers.
Every so often the screen gets pretty unreadable (too many or not enough pixels).
Moving a window around the desktop sometimes will clear this up.

I attempted to download and install the driver direct from Nvidia, but this pretty much
hosed the system.

In 15.1, there were drivers in the NVIDIA repository for my card (GEForce GT-240).
The ‘G03’ drivers were what worked.
Those drivers do not appear to be available in the 15.2 repository.
Is there a SUSE 15.2 repository for older NVIDIA drivers?
The drivers currently listed in the 15.2 repository do NOT work with my card.

Thanx

Richard Rosa

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Hi Richard
Unfortunately with the 15.2 kernel there is no support for the G03 driver, have a read here on alternatives;
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/541438-AMD-Intel-amp-NVidia-X-graphics-driver-primer

It may be possible to do the hard way if you can find suitable patches for the 340.108 (See Nvidia developers forum) run file and create a custom run file.

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I do not know, if it is working, but driver is here:
https://nvidia.if-not-true-then-false.com/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.108-patched-kernel-5.7.run

https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2015/fedora-nvidia-guide/4/#download-nvidia-patched-installer
Driver is patched, you only have to install it the hard way:
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_the_hard_way

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Thanx, I was afraid that was the answer…

I’ve got the Nouveau driver stabilized by uninstalling Mesa-dri. I’m not sure what functionality is lost without it, but so far, everything seems to be working ok.

I guess it is time to upgrade the video card.No more NVIDIA hardware for me. Any recommendations for an inexpensive AMD card?

Richard Rosa

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Hi
Depends on what your wanting to do with the card? What is your hardware slot capabilities, what is your power supply wattage?

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With nouveau drivers use software rendering for DE or turn it off.

New AMD chips - Navi = RX 5000 series - have no AMD ROCm support yet.

AMD don’t provide drivers for Leap 15.2 right now.

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I don’t need a lot of graphics power. Most of my work is text based (terminal/editing/scripts). The few games I play are old school stuff (like Solitaire & Bejeweled). I DO tend to watch movies/videos using VLC, but I don’t do much in the way of video editing…
I just want a video card that works with SUSE without jumping though hoops, and signing numerous license agreements for every update…

Power supply is 750 watts, CPU is AMD Ryzen 5, MB is ASUS Prime X370-Pro.

Thanx.

Richard Rosa

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Hi Richard
I would look at a mid range AMD GPU (GCN 3.0+)… again it depends on your budget, it will work OTB with the amdgpu driver

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With so modest requirements even ATI TeraScale will be good enough (Radeon HD 3000+).