OpenSUSE 15.6 and Nvidia issue

Hi !

I finally opted for OpenSUSE Leap 15.6. The installation went fine (only had to change the default partition schema). / is BRTFS and /home ext4.

The first boot was ok, no graphical acceleration but ok. I added some repos and installed Chrome: it went in installing the proprietary drivers as well (OpenSUSE automatically added the repos during installation but did not install the drivers during the installation process).

I rebooted and figured out my graphical resolution was poor (something like 1024x768). I tried to launch nvidia-settings but the package was not installed.

I tried to install other Nvidia packages like nvidia-utils but that did not solve the issue. I rebooted and then no graphical session at all. I tried to switch to a previous BRTFS snapshot but unfortunately the auto snapshot creation was deactivated (strange, it was automatic long time ago).

I had to reinstall. Now I am back to a decent graphical session without acceleration.

Could you please help me in solving the issue?

The Nvidia card is MSI GeForce RTX 4060 VENTUS 2X BLACK 8G OC. OpenSUSE automatically detected the G06 drivers. But if I try to install them again I am afraid I will come into the same troubles.

By the way, I deactivated the secure computing in the BIOS. I heard it could be problematic.

What do I have to do to activate the proprietary drivers and to get Nvidia-Settings tool to setup the graphical display?

Thanks,

Regards

I did the reinstall and I figured out that I had to “register” or “enroll” the Nvidia drivers after installation (after the reboot, blue screen with instructions). It seems to work (but it’s weird, anytime there is an Nvidia driver upgrade I would have to do that? Not very user friendly).

However I still don’t have Nvidia Settings (I use KDE and Plasma now, maybe there is another tool to setup the screen resolution. So far it is ok as the default resolution seems correct).

Will use Steam and some 3D games to ensure everything is working properly though.

Check that you have nvidia-utils-G06 or possibly nvidia-settings installed (depending on the driver version you re using), like in:

# zypper --no-refresh se --provides nvidia-settings
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S  | Name                | Summary                                                 | Type
---+---------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+--------
   | nvidia-settings     | Configure the NVIDIA graphics driver                    | package
i+ | nvidia-utils-G06    | NVIDIA driver tools                                     | package
i+ | nvidia-video-G06    | NVIDIA graphics driver for GeForce 700 series and newer | package
   | x11-video-nvidiaG04 | NVIDIA graphics driver for GeForce 400 series and newer | package
   | x11-video-nvidiaG05 | NVIDIA graphics driver for GeForce 600 series and newer | package
#

Send a reply to Microsoft or disable secure-boot.

I already disabled secure boot in the BIOS. But even with that we need to enroll the drivers. It works the same on Windows when we upgrade Nvidia drivers (I don’t use Windows at home, only at work, so I don’t know to be honest=

Thank you, will check.

This is working for now. I tested with Steam and 3D games and it works.

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