What I can expect with kernel upgrades and the Nvidia driver

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And I write it again: the openSUSE nvidia rpm repo is available for Tumbleweed meanwhile too.
Use that and you should not have to care about kernel/Xorg/Mesa updates anymore… :wink:

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2017-08/msg00281.html

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yes, I am happy with nvidia repo for TW. Having some kernel and driver updates, no issues so far rotfl!. Hope nvidia repo can be enable in yast2 for this coming, just like what Leap does.

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ahh just found out that nvidia repo for TW is available from yast2. Great!

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Confirm they work.
Perfect:)

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Hi
So I have an older HP desktop here with a 8800GT, dang no rpms for the legacy driver in Tumbleweed now, fortunately I don’t use them…just build the hard way…

So, for the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.102.run there was a patch online for the 12.8 series kernel, but wouldn’t patch properly so I rebased this and is available here;
http://paste.opensuse.org/view/raw/27535948 or via;


wget -O nv_patch_340.102_linux_kernel_4.12.patch http://paste.opensuse.org/view/raw/27535948

Then create a custom run installer via;


./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.102.run --apply-patch nv_patch_340.102_linux_kernel_4.12.patch
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.102-custom.run -aq

Since I want fan control I also created a /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-nvidia.conf containing;


Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 8800 GT"
    Option         "Coolbits" "5"
EndSection

End result;

http://thumbs.imagebam.com/ff/4e/42/517088587555393.jpg](http://www.imagebam.com/image/517088587555393)

I don’t have any issues with GDM or the fact that libglvnd is present… maybe I will strike something one day…