OpenSUSE 13.2 installation on Dell Precision T7610

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Hi,

I am trying to install latest OpenSUSE 13.2 on my workstation Dell Precision T7610.

Just after start of installation, within few seconds everything kills and disappears from the screen. I am not able to understand what might be the cause behind this. As Window is working fine on the same workstation.

Can anybody please help me in this regard? I tried many times and talked to Dell support also, but they said that they do not support OpenSUSE. I also tried to install redhat after talking to Dell support, and it is working fine with redhat.

Any help please. What might be the cause and how can I resolve this to install OpenSUSE?

Thanks
Maqsood

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Hardware incompatibility? Bugs/missing support in the drivers (most likely the graphics) included in openSUSE 13.2?
The RedHat you tried probably contains different verisions of the kernel and the graphics stack.

Try to select “No KMS” at the boot screen (press ‘F3’), maybe that helps:

If you don’t have this menu (if you use UEFI), press ‘e’ when the “Install” entry is selected, search for the line starting with “linux”, and append “nomodeset” at the end. Then press ‘F10’ to boot and start the installation.

For further advise, more details about the hardware would be helpful, like which graphics card(s).
It might be preferable or even necessary to install a proprietary graphics driver afterwards.

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Hi

Thanks for the help. I tried using NO KMS and it somehow install OpenSUSE 13.2.

But the graphics looks very odd. It looks everything in bigger size. And i try to change the resolution but it is not allowing me to change anyhitng as there is only one resolution i can see.

From where can i get proprietary Nvidia driver. i try to google it but very confusing.

Please help.

Thanks
Maqsood

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Yes. You are now using a generic driver in 640x480 (probably).
You could change the resolution in YaST->System->Boot Loader->Kernel Parameters, set the Console Resolution to something else than “Autodetect by grub2”, as this doesn’t work too well with nvidia cards AFAIK.

Installing the proprietary driver should help as well of course, and is probably preferable.

From where can i get proprietary Nvidia driver. i try to google it but very confusing.

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

Which of the 1-click installs you need to click on depends on your graphics card.
If in doubt, please post your exact model for further advise.

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exact model :

VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [NVS 510] [10de:0ffd] (rev a1)Subsystem : NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:0967]
Kernel Modules: nouveau

This whole thing comes on screen when i searched my graphic card version.

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OK, the NVS 510 should be supported by the G02 and the G03 driver according to nvidia’s homepage, so just use the 1st 1-click install.

Or, what I would prefer to do:

  • Enter YaST->Software Repositories, click on “Add”, choose “Community Repositories”, and add the NVidia repo from the list.
  • Then enter YaST->Software Management, search for “nvidia”, and install the following packages (they might be already pre-selected automatically, but better verify them):
    nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop, nvidia-uvm-gfxG03-kmp-desktop, x11-video-nvidiaG03, nvidia-glG03, nvidia-computeG03

After installing the packages (no matter which way), just reboot and the nvidia driver should be used.

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Hi

I add software repository in Yast.
but when i go to software management
YaST->Software Management it show a warning message reading

“An error occurred during repository initialization
‘repo-updat-non-oss’:http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2-non-oss/
[repo-update-non-oss http://download.opensuse.org/update/13.2-non.oss/]
Repository is not cached”

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Could be a temp glitch in the mirror you are using. That repo is not the NVIDIA repo so try the one click it generally work ok

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Hi,

I did as you suggested in the thread to install 1st 1 click nvidia driver and then reboot the system.

After rebooting it directly goes to full screen text mode login. When I tried another option during startup it shows

“Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and system cannot recover. Please logout and try again.”

Does this mean that the driver which I installed is not supported by OpenSUSE 13.2?

Please help me to resolve this.

Thanks
Maqsood

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So your using GNOME apparently.
Which is a pity, as it won’t even work in “recovery mode”, which is what you probably booted to in the second case.

Does this mean that the driver which I installed is not supported by OpenSUSE 13.2?

That means that you probably installed the wrong packages.

One thing first: Try to boot normal mode again. On some systems it might happen that the driver does not work on first boot after the installation. On subsequent boots everything should be ok though.

Well, since GNOME is not going to work at the moment, it will make it more difficult to investigate the problem and solve it.
So I’d suggest to just remove the nvidia driver again for now. To do that, log in to text mode, and run this:

sudo zypper rm nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop nvidia-uvm-gfxG03-kmp-desktop x11-video-nvidiaG03 nvidia-glG03 nvidia-computeG03

You can also run YaST->Software Management instead (it works in text mode as well), search for “nvidia” and remove all packages.

sudo yast

GNOME should at least start in recovery mode again then. I would ask you to post the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old then. This should show why graphical mode did not work.

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Do you know how to install RedHat 5.8 on Dell Precision T7610?

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No.
Probably by booting from the installation medium and choosing “Install” or similar? :stuck_out_tongue:

But you should better ask questions about RedHat in a RedHat oriented forum.
And if you bought RedHat 5.8, you probably should get installation support from RedHat anyway…