- ACER laptop Aspire7520 with working LEAP15.1 XFCE. On using ‘upgrade’ it ran into screen problems, as older nvidia driver needed and not detected. After downloading Live KDE and Gnome and trying, I found Gnome worked on machine, and KDE ran into the screen problems.
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-55, C67 [GeForce 7000M / nForce 610M] - Eventually over Ethernet connection used a ‘install’ General plus select XFCE to “/”, reformat (ext4) (40GB partition) preserving “/home”. This gave working version ONLY when selecting experimental nvidia nouveau driver, which was highlighted as ‘experimental’.
- After install, without keeping packman repository, in YaST, I was unable to ‘add’ packman.
“Add” did not give a possibility of packman.
Packman repository added only via command line. (after search how to do on openSUSE)
This is somewhat a departure from older updates. Which on this machine worked from downloaded install DVD ‘update’. from 42.1 to 15.0 to 15.1
Other machines not yet updated.
I do not understand this. I have been upgrading Asus netbooks from a USB drive (Leap-15.2-DVD)? with no difficulties. What exactly did you do to upgrade? What repositories do you have enabled (zypper lr -Eu)?
sysman@dill:~> sudo hwinfo --gfxcard
07: PCI 300.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
[Created at pci.386]
Unique ID: svHJ.Kf4xnXLL3xD
Parent ID: 37TO.mDdFysbE128
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.0/0000:03:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:03:00.0
Hardware Class: graphics card
Model: "nVidia C79 [ION]"
Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
Device: pci 0x087d "C79 [ION]"
SubVendor: pci 0x1025 "Acer Incorporated [ALI]"
SubDevice: pci 0x0222
Revision: 0xb1
Driver: "nouveau"
Driver Modules: "nouveau"
Memory Range: 0xfb000000-0xfbffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xe0000000-0xefffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xf8000000-0xf9ffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
I/O Ports: 0xec00-0xec7f (rw)
Memory Range: 0x000c0000-0x000dffff (rw,non-prefetchable,disabled)
IRQ: 30 (4038375 events)
I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw)
Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd0000087Dsv00001025sd00000222bc03sc00i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: nouveau is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nouveau"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #11 (PCI bridge)
Primary display adapter: #7
sysman@dill:~>
To help you we need more details about what you actually did. Maybe you ran into this problem? https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/540749-quot-Upgrade-quot-option-on-DVD-does-not-use-available-WiFi-nor-online-repositories
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Not clear if you had the proprietary Nvidia driver installed. I updated one system with only the nouveau driver without problems.
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Yes, there is a warning about Mesa-dri-nouveau being “experimental”: it gives problems on selected systems (don’t recall exactly which ones) and may safely be ignored on most systems. IIRC you should have seen that on the upgrade from 15.0 to 15.1 too.
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Yes, the “Community repositories” list is still empty; don’t know if it will be filled sometime in the near future or if a bug report is in order. Anyway adding manually or editing the old Packman to point to 15.2 works.
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EDIT: just seen a bug report has already been filed: 1173754 – NVIDIA repository (and others like Packman, Libdvdcss2) missing in Community Repos
Too old hardware.
With nouveau drivers + KDE use XRender or turn off graphical effects.
Nvidia proprietary drivers are not available with Nvidia’s repo for Leap 15.2: Index of /opensuse/leap/15.2
, but avilable with 42.3: Index of /opensuse/leap/42.3
, or download and install it manually: Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver | 304.137 | Linux 64-bit | NVIDIA
Nvidia driver 304 will not install on Leap 15.2 (kernel 5.3)… and not supported anymore.
Nvidia driver 340 (for Geforce 8000 and higher, not for 7000 and lower) can be installed manually by the Run-file an must be patched before.
This is not too old hardware. It worked with LEAP 15.1. Average age of computers with my seniors is circa 12 years old.
(I tutor seniors in computing)
My computers are from 1990s, 2002, 2005 , 2009. All can work on XFCE. (1984 machine retired to scrap yard)
Eventually got working by downloading packman via command line. .nouveau driver installed on re-install. [NOT update] Now works XFCE,
Can run Gnome Live , but KDE Live crashes machine on video effects- no visible screen just lines of running pixels,
Thee were 3 distinct problems:
Live Gnome ran, Live KDE did not run. (This should have warned me!) Update ran (but said warning about nouveau driver, so I did NOT accept it. Update ran to end and did not reboot without bad screen.
Ran as an install General plus XFCE and accepted nouveau driver, Install worked but then no ‘add repositories’ to get packman problem arose.
Added packman by command line.
Machine then worked. Just before my orignal post.
Other more modern machine (Dell Latitude circa 2012, I sorted problem by on update , not allowing packman to be removed, Adjusted entry to 15.2, and enabled. thus new main, main update, non-oss, non-oss update plus packman enabled for update. This worked OK
thanks for help.
I appreciate it, but also logging onto forums has been a set of many tries. (the new log on system).
Kindest regards to all who answer forum questions.
Yes, unfortunately there is a known problem, please see https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/540998-AND-LEAP-Community-repositories-missing
What you learn when you have problems is much more than straightforward stuff.
Now I ‘know’ why on install there is F key for driver!
I have found rpm of nouveau driver via a lot of searching and a hint to openSUSE mirrors.
I downloaded the nouveau driver rpm. Put it on a USB key, and will use this the next time I upgrade the old problem machine, so it is not lost.
Question.
Is there a way of FIXING this file and its bits in YaST, so it survives an update, I assume it would mean not formatting “/” on upgrade, so would need other things to clear afterwards.
Summary: How to insert nouveau into an upgrade XFCE from DVD?
Thanks in advance.
For that machine I will avoid any KDE programs (Plasma and Wayland)
I have found rpm of nouveau driver via a lot of searching and a hint to openSUSE mirrors.
nouveau-driver is build in the kernel.
Your question is puzzling and we need more details about what actually didn’t work.
The nouveau kernel module is in the kernel package so I guess you are not referring to that. Please check:
lsmod | grep nouveau
or:
modinfo nouveau
to see what I’m referring to.
Then there are other packages named after nouveau, like:
LT_B:~ # zypper se nouveau
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Summary | Type
--+------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------+--------
i | Mesa-dri-nouveau | Mesa DRI plug-in for 3D acceleration via Nouveau | package
| Mesa-dri-nouveau-32bit | Mesa DRI plug-in for 3D acceleration via Nouveau | package
| libXvMC_nouveau | XVMC state tracker for Nouveau | package
| libXvMC_nouveau-32bit | XVMC state tracker for Nouveau | package
i | libdrm_nouveau2 | Userspace interface for Kernel DRM services for NVIDIA chips | package
| libdrm_nouveau2-32bit | Userspace interface for Kernel DRM services for NVIDIA chips | package
i | libvdpau_nouveau | XVMC state tracker for Nouveau | package
| libvdpau_nouveau-32bit | XVMC state tracker for Nouveau | package
i | xf86-video-nouveau | Accelerated Open Source driver for nVidia cards | package
LT_B:~ #
I have four of them installed and all came from the DVD, so I cannot reproduce your problem if you are referring to one of those.
Moreover the xf86-video-nouveau package may be safely uninstalled on most systems, since most nvidia chips can work with the modesetting driver which is the default nowadays.
Looking at FeatureMatrix · freedesktop.org the GeForce 7000M in your system (check the NV40 column) doesn’t look so old as to need a special treatment, but I might be mistaken.
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