openSUSE Leap issue with Nvidia GeForce GTX 750ti

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Hi!

Recently, I installed openSUSE Tumbleweed on my computer which has Nvidia GeForce GTX 750ti. In the installation, I faced few problems. When I hit the Installation in the installation menu, it goes black screen and ‘no signal’. I edited the conf by pressing ‘e’ and appending nomodeset, and it works. But the display is too large, and has problem connecting to internet. I asked the forum and yet haven’t found any fix on it.

After few disto hopping, I found Manjaro to works well, in the installation it selected install with proprietary drivers and it works, from display, to the usb wifi adaptors’ driver.

But then, as I really like to try out openSUSE. I tried to install it once again. I chose Leap, as I prefer to not have updating too frequent that could break the system. I like stability and focus more on stuffs I like to do. I also hoping that Leap might fix the issues that Tumbleweed can’t offer.

Once I installed Leap, I got that black screen and no signal again. So, I added nomodeset as usual. Leap fixed the driver issue on my usb wifi adaptor but the screen resolution is still too large. I don’t really have that much knowledge on fixing it.

I hope someone give a helping hand on this matter.

Thank youu in advance!! :slight_smile:

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@bochard Hi, can you post the output from inxi -GSaz please

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hi, here is the output:

System:
  Kernel: 6.4.0-150600.21-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 7.5.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.4.0-150600.21-default
    root=UUID=1a054d73-1572-4b65-916b-6da47dfee049 splash=silent nomodeset
    resume=/dev/mapper/cr_swap preempt=full mitigations=auto quiet
    security=apparmor
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.11 tk: Qt v: 5.15.12 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2
    dm: SDDM Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.6
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] driver: N/A alternate: nouveau
    non-free: 530.xx+ status: current (as of 2023-05) arch: Maxwell code: GMxxx
    process: TSMC 28nm built: 2014-19 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1380
    class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.4
    compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: N/A unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa
    alternate: nouveau,nv,nvidia gpu: N/A display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1024x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 271x203mm (10.67x7.99")
    s-diag: 339mm (13.33")
  Monitor-1: default res: 1024x768 hz: 76 size: N/A modes: N/A
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 Mesa 23.3.4

I followed this installation of proprietary driver for NVIDIA: SDB:NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE Wiki
It always throw me this specific error along with other errors and it won’t proceed to install:

Empty destination in URI: hd:/?device=/dev/disk/by-id/dm-name-ventoy

is it related to how I installed the OS? I used ventoy on my usb stick to install Leap.

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Same solution as in this thread:

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that removed the ventoy error but I can’t still proceed due to this another error:

sudo zypper install openSUSE-repos-Leap-NVIDIA
[sudo] password for root: 
Refreshing service 'NVIDIA'.
Refreshing service 'openSUSE'.
Retrieving repository 'update-sle (15.6)' metadata ....................................................[error]
Repository 'update-sle (15.6)' is invalid.
[openSUSE:update-sle|http://cdn.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/sle?mediahandler=curl2] Failed to retrieve new repository metadata.
History:
 - Timeout exceeded when accessing 'http://cdn.opensuse.org/update/leap/15.6/sle/repodata/41ac1692b88ea07d8766da1126d14949b11a581ad0437c04270afe0c1f85612f-deltainfo.xml.gz'.
   Timeout reached Curl error (28)
Please check if the URIs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository.
Warning: Skipping repository 'update-sle (15.6)' because of the above error.
Some of the repositories have not been refreshed because of an error.
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
'openSUSE-repos-Leap-NVIDIA' is already installed.
No update candidate for 'openSUSE-repos-Leap-NVIDIA-20250303.f74564e-lp156.2.6.1.x86_64'. The highest available version is already installed.
Resolving package dependencies...
Nothing to do.
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@bochard if you run zypper -vvv ref -f to add some verbosity and force a refresh of the repositories.

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You do understand the 15.6 is in beta???

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Leap 15.6 was released 12 June 2024