Playing with Slowroll. Have installed fresh on an old Dell laptop (Latitude E6510 - Intel graphics), which I have had Tumbleweed on, successfully, previously.
Selected interface of Plasma/Wayland, and get this:
Can you show your graphics details?
inxi -SGaz
System:
Kernel: 6.14.4-1.0.6.sr20250402-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 14.2.1 clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.14.4-1.0.6.sr20250402-default
root=UUID=1d009f1a-baa6-426a-b6ad-dedbc9b44bbd splash=silent
resume=/dev/disk/by-uuid/6811d3ca-9bd1-41cd-87df-3d866e6196b9
mitigations=auto quiet security=apparmor
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.3.4 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.13.0
wm: kwin_x11 tools: avail: xfce4-screensaver vt: 2 dm: 1: GDM v: 48.0
2: SDDM note: stopped Distro: openSUSE Tumbleweed-Slowroll 20250501
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GT218M [NVS 3100M] vendor: Dell Latitude E6510
driver: nouveau v: kernel non-free: series: 340.xx
status: legacy (EOL~2019-12-xx) last: release: 340.108 kernel: 5.4
xorg: 1.20 arch: Tesla process: 40-80nm built: 2006-2013 pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s ports:
active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,VGA-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0a6c
class-ID: 0300 temp: 44.0 C
Device-2: Ricoh HD Webcam driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 2-1.4:3 chip-ID: 05ca:1814
class-ID: 0e02
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: vesa
alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,nvidia dri: nouveau gpu: nouveau
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: LG Display built: 2009 res: mode: 1920x1080 hz: 60
scale: 100% (1) dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64")
diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 800x600
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia nouveau platforms: device: 0 drv: nouveau
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nouveau surfaceless: drv: nouveau x11:
drv: nouveau inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 3.3 vendor: mesa v: 25.0.5 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: NVA8 device-ID: 10de:0a6c memory: 491.2 MiB
unified: no
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.309 layers: 1 device: 0 type: cpu name: llvmpipe (LLVM
20.1.3 128 bits) driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: xcb,xlib
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo de: kscreen-console,
kscreen-doctor, xfce4-display-settings wl: wayland-info
x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Thanks.
Ok, so not Intel graphics - old NVIDIA graphics in use (with nouveau driver).
You’re probably stuck with using X11. FWIW, a similar Fedora topic.
Let’s see what others say about this legacy hardware.
@hornetster I agree with @deano_ferrari just might need to stick with X11 and start budgeting for some newer hardware…
@mrmazda may have some thoughts/tips…
@hornetster another thought since you indicated Intel, it’s not a hybrid setup and you have switched to the nvidia gpu via something like suse-prime or in the BIOS?
Yeah, sorry, see the error in my ways. (NVidia.)
Will use X11, and keep my eyes open for any updates…
Thanks!
Looks like 2 year old opensuse bug 1211761 and upstream bug 214. It’s inert, but for any finding it bothersome, a simple workaround is available.
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