So I tried to upgrade a desktop with Ryzen 3300G (AMD IGPU) that never had any nvidia hardware in it (it’s newish, fisrt oS was leap 15.6/KDE).
But in the terminal a lot (i.e., more than two) of nvidia packages were pulled in. After reboot only a black screen with a movable mouse cursor, but ALT+CTRL+Backspace twice brought the lock screen, were I COULD login as root to a functional KDE desktop, but NO Wayland option, only X11. Frankly, upgrading to Leap 16.0 is not for the faint of heart.
My plan is to make a new install (which worked well in an Intel AIO) but keep the separate /home, let’s see how it goes.
My question is: why the nvidia packages?
Thanks!
As you don’t show any output…hard to guess.
But it is possible that you saw kernel-firmware-nvidia get installed. This is normal when you have the kernel-firmware-all meta package installed.
It is the same in the opposite direction. I only own pure Intel/Nvidia systems. But i can’t remove libdrm_amdgpu1 or else nearly 1000 packages get removed and the system is unusable.
Yes, that’s probably it. From memory I saw perhaps half a dozen nvidia packages, but I might be wrong. Unfortunately I can’t access the install logs, if any. I’m trying the new installation now.