Hi all!
I really want to join this community, so I started to transition from W11 to Tumbleweed.
During this transition time, I don’t want to completly switch directly. So I wanted to install TW on a portable SSD (Samsung T5). During TW install, I created a 0.5 GiB Boot partition with the installer tool, and an “Operating System” on the 460 other GiB.
Install goes well, I just remove packages I don’t want (KDE Games, KDE PIM and all the Office stuff). First boot after install works pretty much, I follow the “Post-installation best-of” to install Nvidia driver, update packages, install codecs, use the “install-recommends”, etc… Here is the link: https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/tumbleweed/best_of_post/
The only issue is that my 240hz monitor is locked at 60hz, so my first reflex is “let’s reboot to apply the nvidia drivers”.
But after first reboot, resolution is stretched, black screen and nothing working, even when going back with Snapper. I tried 2 time to install on 1 laptop and 1 PC, but same result.
On my PC, I have RTX 5080, Intel I9, 64gb RAM, and ultrawide 21:9 240hz MSI Screen.
I’m a complete beginner, so I’m pretty sure I made a mistake somewhere. Or maybe I can’t install on portable ssd ? Please tell me.
Hugo
Welcome to openSUSE and to the Forums!
Most likely you are just another user affected by black-screen-on-nvidia-after-updating-to-20260428
Follow the “Staff Notice” on the very first line of that thread for a temporary workaround.
Please be aware that the “best_of_post” page you followed reads
Last update: 2022-06-14
and that means ages on the Tumbleweed time scale.
One thing I spotted is
If however you do need proprietary codecs, you can add them manually. To do this we recommend using the opi – Open Build Service Package Installer,
but opi codecsis not recommended by recent advice like SDB:Installing_codecs_from_Packman_repositories, ranking fifth out of 5 options; please be aware of that should you meet with problems about media decoding.
Thank you for your answer, I’ll try that when I come home.
And for the guide, I didn’t noticed.
It was such a great ressource for a new user like me, it could be great if it was updated.
Installing NVIDIA drivers on OpenSUSE was a really bad and overly complicated experience.
It’s frustrating, especially since I expected much more from this system.
Why can’t they just make it simpler for us instead of leaving us stuck in these endless complications?
Please don’t hijack another user’s thread with unrelated issues but open a new thread of your own describing your specific problem.
Normally Nvidia hw is automatically detected and needed drivers installed with the next update, please refer to SDB:NVIDIA_drivers