I am running Tumbleweed and have an Nvidia GeForce 1080ti. I did a “zypper dup” and got a message to choose from solutions to resolve a problem. I posted it on the IRC support channel and some said the build system wasn’t working yet and to wait an hour. But, it had nothing to do with this and was the same the next day. I posted the options on suse paste, but I lost it now because I had to reinstall Tumbleweed.
After I chose the solution I could only get a cursor on a black desktop. It has something to do with Mesa and related 32-bit drivers needed for Steam I believe. There were multiple Solutions in a row to chose from.
So, my question is how do I avoid this problem so I can continue to use Tumbleweed with Steam? I do not know how to choose the appropriate solution when zypper asks me to choose one.
There should be an easier solution so people like me can use Tumbleweed. Would this not be an issue with Leap?
I would suggest switching them (Mesa packages) all back to openSUSE, as in ‘allow-vendor-change’ that should help, but also see if things work fine with the defaults…
Is that something I can do in Yast software management? I see a lot of packages listed there that begin with “Mesa”, under Main Repository (OSS). I also see a link to “Switch system packages” to the versions in this repository, which is a bit confusing. I’m not sure how to do what you are saying, or if that will avoid the problem.
But, these are video drivers, not codecs, so I don’t get why they would be coming from the packman repository. You are saying the opensuse repository version of these drivers is working just fine?
Steam runs now. I was able to “zypper dup” to the latest version of Tumbleweed. I was able to startx into graphical environment. I’m not sure if I needed to change that Mesa-libglapi0-32bit to openSUSE repository or what would have happened if I didn’t.
well best to wait… the workers are dead, until that’s resolved, not a lot…