Nvidia driver or nouveau?

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Hi,

first time on openSUSE, on other distros, usually, the nouveau driver is installed by default, never nvidia driver, but this time with SUSE, I think nvidia has been insatlled by default, is it possible? Cause usually, nouveau driver is not in etc/default/grub and in system info, I don’t see nvidia, could you confirm me please?
thanks

lshw -c video
  *-display                 
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: GP104 [GeForce GTX 1080]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:27:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:96 memory:fb000000-fbffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:e0000000-e1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff


/etc/default/grub
# If you change this file, run 'grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub2/grub.cfg.

# Uncomment to set your own custom distributor. If you leave it unset or empty, the default
# policy is to determine the value from /etc/os-release
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=8
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash=silent mitigations=auto quiet security=apparmor rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

# Uncomment to automatically save last booted menu entry in GRUB2 environment

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The installer might have found an Nvidia GPU by its pci id and then installed openSUSE-repos-Tumbleweed-NVIDIA and a suitable Nvidia driver.
You may see a better description of your graphics subsystem by issuing:

inxi -Gxxz

You may post the result here if you are still in doubt.

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thanks

seems to be 100% nvidia :wink:

inxi -Gxxz
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1080] vendor: ZOTAC driver: nvidia
    v: 570.86.16 arch: Pascal pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none
    off: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DVI-D-1 bus-ID: 27:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:1b80
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.5
    compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting,vesa
    alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 93
  Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-0 note: disabled model: Samsung S24D590
    res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 94 diag: 598mm (23.5")
  API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia gbm: drv: nvidia
    surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia inactive: wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 vendor: nvidia v: 570.86.16 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080/PCIe/SSE2
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.304 surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
    driver: N/A device-ID: 10de:1b80
  Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info
    x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
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inxi -aGz

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For Nvidia + TW you can use TW Slowroll.

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Which additional information is provided by this command, which isn’t already given by OrsoBruno’s request for output? The question was if nouveau or Nvidia drivers are in use. The output from the TO shows that the Nvidia drivers are in use.

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Why do you recommend Slowroll? The TO and many other users are sucessfully using Tumbleweed with Nvidida drivers. Claims that the Tumbleweed kernel lags behind the drivers and vice versa are not backed by facts (but pure FUD).

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LTS kernel works better with Nvidia proprietary drivers.

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Please stop spreading FUD about kernel and Nvidia drivers. Kernel modules get automatically rebuild on the user machine since ages when a new driver or kernel gets installed (when installed via the openSUSE Nvidia repo the “easy way”).

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There are always some corner cases, where some users have issues with their machines and drivers (the same with Intel and AMD as you should know). But that’s not a reason to spread clearly false informations.

All my machines have different Nvidia GPUs (including Optimus setups). All machines use Tumbleweed. No issues with latest drivers and kernels.

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@Svyatko That’s a load of FUD, what are considered legacy devices, maybe, I have no issues with K620, T400, RTX4000 and Telsa P4 devices with the latest drivers…

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Yes, it’s look like that.

I’ve created thread:

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