Hi,
I have bought a refurbished “HP Z2 Tower G4 Workstation” and it came with an Nvidia Quadro P2000.
Its fan is running at, i guess ,100% speed with the nouveau drivers, so I installed the nivdia repository drivers following the instructions of the opensuse wiki. => SDB:NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE Wiki
All is fine with that, the fan is silent now and apart from some little things (black screen when changing back from ttyx) it works like a charm.
Now that the NIVIDIA repository is broken at the moment and that really big TW update was pending, i locked all packages from the nvidia repository, which made the upgrade smooth.
My question is now: Can i keep them locked?
I do not really “need” the latest drivers, i use them only to keep that FAN silent.
Will it break the System on a long run, am I running into issues when i keep them locked?
When the repo is fixed, it is advised to unlock the packages. Package updates nearly always contain security fixes. Keeping outdated packages makes your system vulnerable.
If you read the bugreport you might get an understanding of the technical background…
And it is no Tumbleweed issue. So your permanent claims that Tumbleweed and Nvidia don’t work are baseless…
One could get the bad feeling that some users here in the forum get paid by one hardware manufacturer to permanetly spread false claims about other manufacturers.
Any user who wishes to have newer packages than are available in the openSUSE Leap repositories. This includes, but is not limited to, an updated Linux kernel, SAMBA, git, desktops, office applications, and many other packages.
Also, Tumbleweed should appeal most to Power Users, Software Developers (who require the latest software stacks and IDEs), and openSUSE Contributors (who need a reliable platform that is as close to openSUSE Factory as possible while remaining usable).
Due to the Linux kernel being updated very frequently, users who rely on 3rd party kernel driver modules including graphic drivers should not use the Tumbleweed distribution unless they are familiar with updating these drivers from source on their own or they have supported hardware. For more details please refer to the “Third Party Drivers” section below.
Who should use openSUSE Leap instead of Tumbleweed?
While every effort is made to build them, at this point there is no guarantee to have all additional modules available in openSUSE Tumbleweed like for example, VMware or VirtualBox. And while the Packman Tumbleweed Essential repository attempts to deliver them there is no guarantee they will always succeed due to the incompatibilities with the quickly advancing Linux kernel. The problems with proprietary graphics drivers are similar and there is no guarantee they will work tomorrow, even if they do today. If you don’t know how to compile your own additional kernel modules and you don’t wish to learn or keep a very close eye on what is being updated, please don’t use Tumbleweed.
I hope that “nvidia-repo Bug” will be resolved soon.
I think I will try to get a new gfx on the long run or have a go with the built-in Intel gpu, which might be enough for my needs. As I said, it is a refurbished PC and I had no real choice when it came to the GPU.
I usually try to stay away from the 3rd party drivers as much as I can and stick with the builtin/kernel ones, but that Fan at 100% was/is really annoying.
