After installing Suse Leap 15.3 on my Desk Top all seem to have went well until KDE loaded. Screen displayed the Welcome box then screen scrambled into a tweed looking graphic. No pointer, no functions keyboard or mouse.
My machine is a Gigabyte M61PME-S2P with a AMD Athlon LE processor, 4G Ram, 500G HD, on board graphic is NVIDIA, monitor is a Samsung S24B150.
Can anyone solve this issue?
I run this Leap on my Asus laptop with no problem even though it’s starting to slow some.
That Leap version is well past end of life. How is the monitor connected to the video card? VGA or DVI connected?
KDE Plasma has higher hardware requirements in a few areas than some lighter weight DEs, good compositing support in particular it seems. Try booting into IceWM from your login screen instead of Plasma as a test to see whether it’s only Plasma that is giving you that problem. It should already be installed, but if not, just do sudo zypper in icewm and try. If it works OK, disabling Plasma compositing could possibly solve the current issue.
Leap 15.6 may work better than 15.3, but will only continue support for about 7 more months. Your ancient single core CPU is not supported by 16.0, so upgrading to or installing it will not be possible. I suggest you consider to give Slowroll a try. It may be good enough, if your needs are modest.
The particular GPU model on that motherboard was never well supported by FOSS drivers. I had a similar one for several years that was given to me following a customer upgrade. After several years of poor performance I installed a $29 from eBay discrete GPU for much better support and performance. Your motherboard does have a PCIe slot into which you could install just about any bargain-basement 10 or 15 year old discrete GPU from eBay and get vastly better support and performance, or any of a number of much newer and much better yet performing GPUs not worth coupling to such an low capability GPU with DDR2 RAM.
Is your VGA cable a good one, with all 15 pins in use? Some displays have trouble with VGA cables that use only 14. Ability to use a DVI, HDMI or DisplayPort cable instead could be justification enough for a GPU upgrade.
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