nVIDIA GeForce 7100 driver

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#1

I have Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H motherboard on my PC which goes with nVIDIA GeForce 7100.

Without drivers it shows me display in 640x480 resolution.

I couldn’t find the driver in the repos for my video card. Also, I couldn’t install the driver, taken from official website, because it didn’t find the sources.

What should I do?

#2

Please do

zypper in inxi

as root or using sudo, then paste here, using the # icon (for code) above, the text output from

grep 'Kernel command' /var/log/Xorg.0.log

and

rpm -qa | grep xf86-video

and

inxi -Gxx

run as root or using sudo. Your installation in safe mode may have failed to include a required FOSS X driver, or have included a cmdline option that prevents using an appropriate KMS X driver.

#3

Use YaST’s repo manager, click Add, Community repo, check the NVIDIA repo. Best afterwards is to


sudo zypper inr

This should install the proprietary drivers for your video card model.

#4

Thank you for answers. I’ll try the suggestions this evening.

#5

I’ve added nVIDIA repo, run


sudo zypper inr

but nothing was installed. I also ran


sudo zypper up

just in case.
Then I checked


sudo zypper se -i nvidia

This command returned no results.

So, driver was not installed and now I even running my OS in text mode.

#6

I ran the commands you’ve proposed.

Here is the result. Sorry for pasting the image, but it’s too much to type.

https://paste.opensuse.org/view/raw/81342742

#7

Those commands were meant to be redirected to file for copy and paste, or copied and pasted from Konsole or an Xterm.

Output from the grep command shows you are booted into failsafe mode. Are you unable to boot at all using the default boot menu selection? From the main selection you should be able to boot into the GUI via use of the X driver from the xf86-video-nouveau package that the rpm command shows is installed. Without that package installed, you should be able to boot into the GUI via use of the “modesetting” X driver provided by the X server itself. You might wish to give xf86-video-nouveau removal and reboot a try. Output from that grep command cannot produce an expected result while booted in failsafe mode, so if you can boot using the default boot menu selection, please provide that output again. Better yet might be to use this command:

susepaste -n Rominf -e 40320 /var/log/Xorg.0.log

and provide the resulting URL here.

#8

Sorry for a long delay - I’ve been AFK this time.

I’m using the default boot menu selection. I think this can be because I’ve installed the OS in safe mode (see https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/534056-Stuck-on-loading-basic-drivers?p=2888013#post2888013).

I’ve removed xf86-video-nouveau and rebooted - same result. After this I’ve also found that I had Mesa-dri-nouveau installed. I’ve removed it - same result.

As I wrote, I unable to boot in normal mode, so there is no point posting Xorg log here.

What should I try next?

#9

For some definition of “unable to boot in normal mode”, “no point” is false. It may be trying to start X and failing to show anything on the display but nevertheless creating a log containing clues to “boot” failure.

What should I try next?
Try booting by striking e at the grub menu and clearing the entirety of the kernel cmdline that follows the name of the kernel (root=, resume=, splash=, quiet, etc.).

#10

Bad idea!!!

#11

Do you have Internet when logged in as root to a Terminal?

If yes:
Install susepaste:

zypper in -f susepaste

Post the URL of the following commands (you have to wait a bit to get them):

zypper lr -d

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

grep 'blacklist nouveau' /etc/modprobe.d/*

And you have many Parameters in your bootline:

cat /proc/cmdline

Otherwise take a picture.

#12

Note that the 7100’s are over 9 years old there is probably no NVIDIA support. May have even fallen off the nouveau support .

#13 
# inxi -bxx
System:    Host: mcp61 Kernel: 4.12.14-lp150.12.25-default x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.3.1 Desktop: Trinity R14.0.5 
           tk: Qt 3.5.0 wm: Twin dm: startx Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.0 
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: MSI model: MS-7309 v: 1.0 serial: N/A BIOS: American Megatrends v: 9.9 date: 12/23/2009 
CPU:       Dual Core: AMD Athlon II X2 240 type: MCP arch: K10 speed: 2813 MHz 
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 00:0d.0 
           chip ID: 10de:03d0 
           Display: server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: nouveau unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa alternate: nvidia 
           resolution: 1280x1024~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 5.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.0.2 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Info:      Processes: 143 Uptime: N/A Memory: 1.88 GiB used: 233.2 MiB (12.1%) Init: systemd v: 234 runlevel: 3 
           target: multi-user.target Compilers: gcc: N/A Shell: bash v: 4.4.23 running in: konsole inxi: 3.0.28 
# inxi -Gxx           
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 00:0d.0 
           chip ID: 10de:03d0 
           Display: server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa alternate: nouveau,nvidia 
           resolution: 1280x1024~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 5.0 128 bits) v: 3.3 Mesa 18.0.2 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes

Given the GeForce 6150SE works with both 15.0’s FOSS drivers for NVidia, odds are high OP’s 7100 can do the same.

#14

I’ve tried to boot with modified cmdline, but after this susepaste didn’t work for some reason. So I rebooted and here it is: http://susepaste.org/40735263

PS: I also installed back Mesa-dri-nouveau.

#15

Yes, I have. And susepaste is already installed :slight_smile:

http://susepaste.org/61711883

http://susepaste.org/26130660

http://susepaste.org/93672483

http://susepaste.org/70667207

#16

The G02 driver for your Graphics is not build (for Leap15.0) and not supported anymore so I suggest to deinstall all NVidia-drivers and restart your system.

#17

OK, got it. How do I find all nVIDIA drivers?

#18

It seems that this driver on nVIDIA website is what I need: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/123709/en-us

I’ve tried to install it, but it didn’t find the kernel sources even when I installed them (via zypper) and used a special flag to specify sources location.

#19

You need kernel-default-devel, kernel-devel, make and gcc

So post:

zypper se -si kernel make gcc

But I do not know, if the driver builds.

#20

IMO all that’s needed is to restore the FOSS purity of the original 15.0 installation: eliminate all the contamination caused by proprietary driver installation, not the least of which is nouveau blacklisting. 13 year old hardware should not depend on proprietary drivers, and IME, it doesn’t.