Nvidia GEForce MX250 graphics card doesn't work

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Hello,
I can’t get my GeForce MX250 graphics card to work.
I did a fresh install of openSUSE Leap 15.2 using Virtualbox on my ASUS ZenBook Windows 10.
libdrm-nouveau2 installs by default. But as I understand it doesn’t support GeForce MX250.
Only 800x600 is possible on my monitor.

I did the following steps:

  1. Add NVidia to my Yast repository
    https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers
  2. Via YAST I installed
    • nvidia-computeG05
    • nvidia-gfxG05-kmp-default
    • nvidia-glGO5
    • suse-prime
  3. I ran “sudo command prime-select nvidia”
  4. I rebooted Linux. My KDE no longer works. I reboot into command line.

Now what?

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If this is an installtion inside Virtualbox, there are only virtual graphics adapters, no real…

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Why not telling:
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-geforce-mx250-on-linux-opensuse-leap-15-2-not-working/158698

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That explains it. Thank you.

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I found my true solution. First, my real problem was KDE was stuck at 800x600. I don’t care if I use Intel integrated GPU or Nvidia GPU.
I solved KDE by going to:
KDE > System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Background Services
and uncheck KScreen2.
Afterwards, KDE would properly resize.
I discovered this on a forum. To quote:
[vbox 6.1.4 works, vbox 6.1.6 is totally broken wrt resizing, and starting with vbox 6.1.8, for some reason, kscreen starts hammering VBoxClient daemon for 800x600 (aka followPreferredMode ). This only affects KDE 5.15 and beyond, which TW has of course.]