Stuck at 640×480 after recent updates

ChaserHUN · October 4, 2025, 10:17am

I don’t know what is going un, but since the end of august there are always something wrong after updating.

After recent updates I am stuck at 640×480 resolution. I had my nvidia driver locked at 580.76, because I like to play retro games and for example kingpin life of crime didn’t run with newer driver and VTM Bloodlines was unplayable.

Even though if I updated everything including the nvidia drivers to the latest, something broke and I am stuck at 640×480. Anyone else having this issue?

hui · October 4, 2025, 10:19am

Please search the recent forum posts…
And provide the always required basic informations in such cases…
zypper se -si nvidia
inxi -GSaz

ChaserHUN · October 4, 2025, 4:31pm

nagy@localhost:~> zypper se -si nvidia
Telepítési forrás adatainak beolvasása…
Telepített csomagok beolvasása…

nagy@localhost:~> inxi -GSaz
System:
Kernel: 6.16.9-1-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.0
clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.16.9-1-default
root=UUID=54cf3930-db2f-4595-ad7a-dfe5373d4957 splash=silent
mitigations=auto quiet security=apparmor kvm.enable_virt_at_load=0
rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.4.5 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.18.0
wm: kwin_x11 tools: avail: xscreensaver vt: 2 dm: SDDM Distro: openSUSE
Tumbleweed 20250930
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070] driver: nvidia v: 580.76.05
alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 550-580.xx+ status: current (as of
2025-08; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Pascal code: GP10x process: TSMC 16nm
built: 2016-2021 pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3
speed: 8 GT/s ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3,
DVI-D-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1b81 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Sunplus Innovation IW 2000 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 3-4:4
chip-ID: 1bcf:d10d class-ID: 0102
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.8
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting,vesa
alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 101 s-size: 483x272mm (19.02x10.71")
s-diag: 554mm (21.82")
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-0 note: disabled model: Acer V226HQL
serial: built: 2020 res: mode: 1920x1080 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1)
dpi: 102 gamma: 1.2 size: 477x268mm (18.78x10.55") diag: 547mm (21.5")
ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2
drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia
inactive: wayland,device-1
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 580.76.05
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2
memory: 7.81 GiB
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.321 layers: 7 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 driver: nvidia v: 580.76.05
device-ID: 10de:1b81 surfaces: N/A device: 1 type: cpu name: llvmpipe
(LLVM 21.1.2 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 25.2.3 (LLVM 21.1.2)
device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: N/A
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
nagy@localhost:~>

After these updates I’m stuck at 640×480. This happens if I unlock nvidia drivers and let them refresh to the latest
big@localhost:~> sudo zypper dup
[sudo] root password:
Updating service ‘NVIDIA’.
Updating service ‘openSUSE’.
Retrieving source information…
Retrieving installed packages…
Warning: You are about to upgrade your distribution with all sources enabled. Make sure these sources are compatible before proceeding. For more information about this command, see ‘man zypper’.
Calculating distribution update…

The following 17 items are locked and will not be modified by any action:
Installed:
libnvidia-gpucomp libnvidia-gpucomp-32bit nvidia-common-G06 nvidia-compute-G06 nvidia-compute-G06-32bit nvidia-compute-utils-G06 nvidia-driver-G06-kmp-default
nvidia-driver-G06-kmp-meta nvidia-gl-G06 nvidia-gl-G06-32bit nvidia-libXNVCtrl nvidia-modprobe nvidia-persistenced nvidia-settings nvidia-userspace-meta-G06 nvidia-video-G06
nvidia-video-G06-32bit

The following 160 packages will be updated:
bash bash-doc bash-lang bash-loadables bash-sh cmake cmake-full cmake-man cpupower cpupower-bash-completion curl dirmngr ffmpeg-7 gdk-pixbuf-loader-libheif gpg2 gpg2-lang
gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-bad-lang kernel-macros kf6-kimageformats kimageformats kirigami-addons6 kirigami-addons6-lang kvm_stat libavcodec61 libavcodec61-32bit
libavdevice61 libavfilter10 libavformat61 libavformat61-32bit libavutil59 libavutil59-32bit libcpupower1 libcurl4 libcurl4-32bit libgbm1 libgbm1-32bit libgpg-error0
libgpg-error0-32bit libgstadaptivedemux-1_0-0 libgstanalytics-1_0-0 libgstbadaudio-1_0-0 libgstbasecamerabinsrc-1_0-0 libgstcodecparsers-1_0-0 libgstcodecs-1_0-0
libgstcuda-1_0-0 libgstinsertbin-1_0-0 libgstisoff-1_0-0 libgstmpegts-1_0-0 libgstmse-1_0-0 libgstphotography-1_0-0 libgstplay-1_0-0 libgstplayer-1_0-0 libgstsctp-1_0-0
libgsturidownloader-1_0-0 libgstva-1_0-0 libgstvulkan-1_0-0 libgstwayland-1_0-0 libgstwebrtc-1_0-0 libgstwebrtcnice-1_0-0 libheif1 libheif-aom libheif-dav1d libheif-ffmpeg
libheif-jpeg libheif-openjpeg libheif-rav1e libheif-svtenc libIex-3_4-33 libIex-3_4-33-x86-64-v3 libIlmThread-3_4-33 libIlmThread-3_4-33-x86-64-v3 libKirigamiAddonsStatefulApp6
libnetpbm11 libnfsidmap1 libopencv412 libOpenEXR-3_4-33 libOpenEXR-3_4-33-x86-64-v3 libOpenEXRCore-3_4-33 libOpenEXRCore-3_4-33-x86-64-v3 libpipewire-0_3-0
libpipewire-0_3-0-32bit libpostproc58 libpython3_11-1_0 libpython3_11-1_0-x86-64-v3 libpython3_13-1_0 libpython3_13-1_0-x86-64-v3 libswresample5 libswresample5-32bit
libswscale8 libswscale8-32bit libvdpau_nouveau libvirglrenderer1 libvulkan_intel libvulkan_intel-32bit libvulkan_lvp libvulkan_radeon libvulkan_radeon-32bit libxmlsec1-1
libxmlsec1-nss1 mariadb mariadb-client mariadb-errormessages Mesa Mesa-32bit Mesa-demo-egl Mesa-demo-x Mesa-dri Mesa-dri-32bit Mesa-libEGL1 Mesa-libGL1 Mesa-libGL1-32bit
Mesa-libva Mesa-vulkan-device-select Mesa-vulkan-device-select-32bit MozillaFirefox MozillaFirefox-translations-common netpbm nfs-client nfs-kernel-server ninja
openSUSE-release openSUSE-release-ftp perl-XML-LibXML pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-alsa-32bit pipewire-jack pipewire-lang pipewire-libjack-0_3 pipewire-modules-0_3
pipewire-modules-0_3-32bit pipewire-pulseaudio pipewire-spa-plugins-0_2 pipewire-spa-plugins-0_2-32bit pipewire-spa-tools pipewire-tools python311 python311-base
python311-base-x86-64-v3 python311-curses python311-dbm python311-requests python311-x86-64-v3 python313 python313-base python313-base-x86-64-v3 python313-curses python313-dbm
python313-pyliblo3 python313-requests python313-tk python313-x86-64-v3 rpcbind snapd snapd-selinux strace v4l2loopback-autoload v4l2loopback-utils wsdd

The following product will be updated:
openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250930-0 → 20251002-0

The following 6 NEW packages will be installed:
kernel-default-6.17.0-1.1 kernel-default-devel-6.17.0-1.1 kernel-devel-6.17.0-1.1 libImath-3_2-30 v4l2loopback-kmp-default-0.15.1_k6.17.0_1-66.53
virtualbox-kmp-default-7.2.0_k6.17.0_1-3.5

The following package will be REMOVED:
libImath-3_1-29

The following package requires a system restart:
kernel-default-6.17.0-1.1

160 packages updated, 6 new, 1 removal.

Package download size: 503.5 MiB

Package installation size change:
| 1.34 GiB required by packages that will be installed
355.6 MiB | - 1017.8 MiB released by packages that will be removed

Note: System restart required.

Backend: classic_rpmtrans
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hui · October 4, 2025, 4:36pm

The issue will be solved with the next driver update:
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1250998

ChaserHUN · October 4, 2025, 4:49pm

Ok, but what causing it? Because if I don’t update the nvidia driver the problem exists if I update the packages that is shown with the sudeo zypper dup command.

hui · October 4, 2025, 4:52pm

You dup to a new 6.17 kernel but have locked Nvidia kernels for 6.16. This is causing issues.

ChaserHUN · October 4, 2025, 10:07pm

But if I let the nvidia drivers update as well the problem still exists…

OrsoBruno · October 4, 2025, 10:32pm

Please read the bug report @hui linked, the current Nvidia kmp is not compatible with kernel 6.17. A new driver is coming possibly in a few days.

ChaserHUN · October 9, 2025, 3:56pm

Well they solved the resolution problem, but yet again Kingpin Life of Crime says I should have a graphics card that supports opengl, VTM Bloodlines becomes unplayable. None of this is present with 6.16 kernel and 580.76 driver

OrsoBruno · October 9, 2025, 5:43pm

Please see if this post might be related.

ChaserHUN · October 10, 2025, 8:11pm

Thanks. It seems that this solved it. Just don’t get it that I didn’t had to do this earlier.

system · October 17, 2025, 8:12pm

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