Nvidia GT710, stuck at 800x600

Hi all,

I’m running Leap 15.2, all upgrades installed as of 2021-05-19.
Hardware is an intel i3 shuttle PC with an NVidia GT710 graphics card.

However I cannot get the desktop to display in anything above 800x600.

I found this post : https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/542104-Upgraded-from-G04-to-G05-Nvidia-driver-and-now-resolution-stuck-at-800x600 with a similar issue but the presented solution has not resolved my problem.

Collecting the info requested in that post incase it helps…

Card :


# /sbin/lspci -nnk | egrep -A3 "VGA|Display|3D"
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] [10de:128b] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device [1462:8c93]
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
        Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia


Kernel / nvidia modules


# zypper se -si kernel nvidia
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S  | Name                             | Type    | Version                               | Arch   | Repository
---+----------------------------------+---------+---------------------------------------+--------+-----------------------
i+ | devel_kernel                     | pattern | 20170319-lp152.6.3                    | x86_64 | Main Repository
i+ | kernel-default                   | package | 5.3.18-lp152.75.1                     | x86_64 | Main Update Repository
i+ | kernel-default                   | package | 5.3.18-lp152.72.1                     | x86_64 | Main Update Repository
i  | kernel-default-devel             | package | 5.3.18-lp152.75.1                     | x86_64 | Main Update Repository
i  | kernel-default-devel             | package | 5.3.18-lp152.72.1                     | x86_64 | Main Update Repository
i  | kernel-devel                     | package | 5.3.18-lp152.75.1                     | noarch | Main Update Repository
i  | kernel-devel                     | package | 5.3.18-lp152.72.1                     | noarch | Main Update Repository
i  | kernel-firmware                  | package | 20200107-lp152.2.6.1                  | noarch | Main Update Repository
i  | kernel-macros                    | package | 5.3.18-lp152.75.1                     | noarch | Main Update Repository
i  | kernel-preempt                   | package | 5.3.18-lp152.75.1                     | x86_64 | Main Update Repository
i  | kernel-preempt                   | package | 5.3.18-lp152.72.1                     | x86_64 | Main Update Repository
i  | kernel-preempt-devel             | package | 5.3.18-lp152.75.1                     | x86_64 | Main Update Repository
i  | kernel-preempt-devel             | package | 5.3.18-lp152.72.1                     | x86_64 | Main Update Repository
i  | kernel-source                    | package | 5.3.18-lp152.75.1                     | noarch | Main Update Repository
i  | kernel-source                    | package | 5.3.18-lp152.72.1                     | noarch | Main Update Repository
i  | kernel-syms                      | package | 5.3.18-lp152.75.1                     | x86_64 | Main Update Repository
i  | kernel-syms                      | package | 5.3.18-lp152.72.1                     | x86_64 | Main Update Repository
i  | nfs-kernel-server                | package | 2.1.1-lp152.9.6.1                     | x86_64 | Main Update Repository
i+ | nvidia-computeG05                | package | 460.80-lp152.38.1                     | x86_64 | NVIDIA
i+ | nvidia-gfxG05-kmp-default        | package | 460.80_k5.3.18_lp152.19-lp152.38.1    | x86_64 | NVIDIA
i  | nvidia-gfxG05-kmp-preempt        | package | 460.73.01_k5.3.18_lp152.19-lp152.39.1 | x86_64 | (System Packages)
i+ | nvidia-glG05                     | package | 460.80-lp152.38.1                     | x86_64 | NVIDIA
i+ | nvidia-texture-tools             | package | 2.0.8-lp152.3.9                       | x86_64 | Main Repository
i+ | patterns-devel-base-devel_kernel | package | 20170319-lp152.6.3                    | x86_64 | Main Repository
i  | purge-kernels-service            | package | 0-lp152.4.1                           | noarch | Main Repository
i  | texlive-l3kernel                 | package | 2017.133.svn44483-lp152.7.2           | noarch | Main Repository
i  | texlive-l3kernel-doc             | package | 2017.133.svn44483-lp152.7.2           | noarch | Main Repository
i+ | x11-video-nvidiaG05              | package | 460.80-lp152.38.1                     | x86_64 | NVIDIA


I tried re-installing the modules :

zypper in -f nvidia-computeG05 nvidia-gfxG05-kmp-default nvidia-glG05 x11-video-nvidiaG05

That all appeared to go OK, but has not chnaged anything.

The Display settings in XFce only offer me “default” display and 800x600. My monitor is 1920x1200 so should be capable of that.

Any clues as to what the problem is?

Cheers.

Phill.

Delete all preempt-kernel and install nvidia once more.

Restart your system.