NVidia drivers for the latest kernel or older kernel for existing NVidia driver

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I had to quickly install “Tumbleweed” edition of Gecko on a borrowed system - intel core i7 with GTX1650Ti.

I updated the system and it installed kernel version 6.5.6. Then installed nvidia drivers but they don’t work giving some drm errors. Then, when I inspected the kmp files, they were for kernel version 6.5.3. So now I need kernel 6.5.3 to work the NVidia driver.

IF you are wondering why not just use intel driver (which works perfectly) it because the HDMI output doesn’t work with Intel card / drivers. I need them on Monday to give my training session!

I have uninstalled all nvidia drivers in the hope of installing drivers from NVidia website. But chickened out :smile:

Any help is much appreciated either to find and installed the older kernel or try to make the nvidia driver work for this kernel.

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It won’t last long, so don’t wait: 6.5.3. If not found, try the 20230923 dir.

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Thanks for you response. I see the kernel in the link you posted. But what is the best way to get the kernel? Do I add this as a repo and then use zypper to install or just download the rpms directly? I am afraid if I do the latter I might run into dependecy hell but to do the former I need some guidance on how to add this repository.

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For a one time download like this, download however you like, and install with zypper or rpm. My normal procedure is download with wget, install with rpm if my left forefinger wants to type first, or zypper if my left pinkie wants to type first. :smiley:

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Those nvidia drivers work fine with kernel 6.5.6 on my machine, and I suspect, most people’s machines given the lack of complaints I see.

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I tried it with kernel 6.5.3 still not able to load the module. There are no errors. It doesn’t load at all. I was looking at the nvidia packages and found the nvidia-video-G06 is missing in the repo. According to the NVidia installation guide, that is one of the package needed for NVidia driver to work.

I guess, I will have to wait.

@blackbrook : Yeah, now that you have mentioned it, maybe it is just my system. If someone can help me further to troubleshoot it will be much appreciated. I see the hardware in hwinfo but, there is no mention of nvidia driver. It is only mentioning the nouveu driver.

venantius-82au:~ # hwinfo --gfxcard
16: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)             
  [Created at pci.386]
  Unique ID: VCu0.wqKNWwE5Rt3
  Parent ID: vSkL.+kJVdIr5xLD
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
  Hardware Class: graphics card
  Model: "nVidia TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile]"
  Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x1f95 "TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile]"
  SubVendor: pci 0x17aa "Lenovo"
  SubDevice: pci 0x3fc8 
  Revision: 0xa1
  Memory Range: 0xc4000000-0xc4ffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xb0000000-0xbfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xc0000000-0xc1ffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0x4000-0x4fff (rw,disabled)
  Memory Range: 0xc3000000-0xc307ffff (ro,non-prefetchable,disabled)
  IRQ: 255 (no events)
  Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00001F95sv000017AAsd00003FC8bc03sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: nouveau is not active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nouveau"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #11 (PCI bridge)

Should do some blacklisting or something?

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@venanks the G06 drivers are there? https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed/x86_64/

Sure you haven’t got the open nvidia driver installed?

zypper se -si nvidia

I use the run file here and no issues with the 6.5.8 kernel and 545.23.06 driver on my Desktop system.

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Just did an update this morning…brought in the 6.5.8 kernel. Now nvidia is working without any effort on my part!

Thanks @malcolmlewis and everyone else.

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Try the solution on this site, for me worked it perfectly

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Why link to a external (really bad formatted) site when openSUSE has a Wiki for it:
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_the_hard_way

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers