Here’s the issue I’m having with a lot of distro’s lately. . . . 750Ti Nvidia graphics card with proprietary driver (i.e.331.38 to 340.xx) does work with my video card. When I boot up the OpenSuse 13.2 installation DVD it comes up with the Noveau graphics screen it is visually there but at a resolution that makes it impossible to read because of garbled and low res text. How does one bypass this issue using the terminal during bootup and install the proprietary Nvidia driver so that the system graphics will work? This Nvidia graphics card was a big mistake because of the new GPU it has. Ubuntu also has the same boot up issue also with low res Noveau graphics text display. . . .it’s there but cannot be read and followed. How do I get this distro installed with the proprietary graphics driver from start? . . . any help is appreciated. . . If someone can go throught the steps with me I’d appreciate it. I know I can get into mode 3 at boot up and I guess that’s where I start.
OK I installed Opensuse 13.2 via yast2 onto my hard drive. When it boots up, I am stuck in a graphics mode that finally locks up the screen with the background wallpaper. . . the Gnome3 menu bar hasn’t appeared yet and will not ultimately no matter how long it sits there with the hard drive spinning. . .(the program stops at the graphical interface step in the in the terminal screen code distplay.) I hit ‘alt-f1’ to get into terminal mode. After entering my using name and root password I’m off and running. At the prompt I type in yast2 and am now using the non-graphicial user interface. I go to network manager and I spend 30 minutes to finally get my network wifi-card to finally work. Great I’ve got a connection now to the internet. This is indicated by my connection to suse as it visually updates my repositories.
Using zypper I attempt to add the repository per instructions below:
I try #zypper install x11-video-nvidiaGO3 and also nvidiaG03. . . . 'the zero needs a dot in the center to better distinguish it from a capitalize ‘O’ or for the number ‘zero’. In the printout I downloaded from Suse’s site. I try both just the same. . . nothing works here. . .
Nothing works. . . .
What did I do wrong. . . . any help would be appreciated.
Rich
I’m now still at a loss here and trying to figure our where I’ve gone wrong. . . . any help?
hi,
so not sure where you got the ftp site for nvidia. I have this url set in the repository(http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/13.1/). You can use a non-graphical interface from the command line by starting yast2. simply as root issue yast2 and the menu will be displayed to you go to Software repositories(using arrows,tab, etc) and add a repository from community with spacebar (i learned this today) and select the nvidia repo. then save and add search for nvidia packages via software management. you save and reboot and everything should work(I hope).
Well. . . .I gave it a try and it was all for nothing. I updated all of the files using yast and I successfully installed the Nvidia repository and all of the files for the nvidiaG03 x86_64 driver and it wouldn’t work. The system would boot up till till the background wallpaper came on and it would sit there. The menu bar at the top for Gnome3 and the dash side menu wouldn’t appear or work. The system was still crashing over the driver installation for some reason. This was with the 340.xx nvidia 86x_64 bit driver G03 driver. Well something tells I should sit on this card for another year till the software gets rewritten or reversed engineered for this new GPU.
I had it working in Ubuntu 14.10 Gnome 3.12.2 only after removing a GTX-600 card before installing ubuntu’s latest nvidia driver then replacing the card back with the GTX 750 ti. This switcheroo worked. But I wasn’t satisfied with just leaving it alone like that and decided to give Opensuse 13.2 a try thinking the driver would work after installing the software with yast and updating the repositories with the latest Nvidia drivers and then using them. No such luck.
All of this is on my best machine that I keep hoping to get working with the 750 ti card. Right now I’m using an older machine with a GTX-650 Nvidia card and Suse works very well with Gnome3. I guess I’ll have to wait and see. . . . only time will tell when everyone catches up on these stupid driver issues.With Noveau the computer boots up using the install DVD but the screen can’t be read because letter characters are garbled up and indistinguishable . that’s the state of Noveau with the 750 ti graphics card.
Just one note:
I hope you did not use the exact URL from the post before as repo?
That URL is for openSUSE 13.1 (should be obvious by looking at it), and the driver version for 13.1 will not work on 13.2, at least the OpenGL part (which GNOME requires/uses heavily).
The 750Ti should be supported by the G03 (340.xx) driver.