• TW 20240301 installer = nothing but a black screen

    From bad sector@forgetski@_INVALID.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Sat Mar 2 20:19:19 2024
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    Nvidia gk-107 card, same for installation or upgrade, function keys do
    nothing and after a while all dvd activity comes to a halt

    I was thinking of trying MICRO also but fear that it will do the same
    after another 3 hour download :-(




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  • From bad sector@forgetski@_INVALID.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Sun Mar 3 21:21:54 2024
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    On 3/2/24 20:19, bad sector wrote:
    Nvidia gk-107 card, same for installation or upgrade, function keys do nothing and after a while all dvd activity comes to a halt

    I was thinking of trying MICRO also but fear that it will do the same
    after another 3 hour download :-(

    Sure enough, same nothing; and these are 'installation' DVD's?

    If I were a developer, I think I would poll for rational keyboard or
    mouse input, failing any of that I would presume that the user cannot
    see anything on the monitor and change the game. Just saying.


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  • From Malcolm@malcolmlewis@linuxmail.org.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Sun Mar 3 20:52:47 2024
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    On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 21:21:54 -0500
    bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:

    On 3/2/24 20:19, bad sector wrote:
    Nvidia gk-107 card, same for installation or upgrade, function keys
    do nothing and after a while all dvd activity comes to a halt

    I was thinking of trying MICRO also but fear that it will do the
    same after another 3 hour download :-(

    Sure enough, same nothing; and these are 'installation' DVD's?

    If I were a developer, I think I would poll for rational keyboard or
    mouse input, failing any of that I would presume that the user cannot
    see anything on the monitor and change the game. Just saying.


    3 hours.. slow internet, try the net install?

    Add nomodeset to the grub boot options and see if that helps. What
    model nvidia: /sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -EA3 "VGA|Display|3D"
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  • From bad sector@forgetski@_INVALID.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Mon Mar 4 17:01:27 2024
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    On 3/3/24 21:52, Malcolm wrote:
    On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 21:21:54 -0500
    bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:

    On 3/2/24 20:19, bad sector wrote:
    Nvidia gk-107 card, same for installation or upgrade, function keys
    do nothing and after a while all dvd activity comes to a halt

    I was thinking of trying MICRO also but fear that it will do the
    same after another 3 hour download :-(

    Sure enough, same nothing; and these are 'installation' DVD's?

    If I were a developer, I think I would poll for rational keyboard or
    mouse input, failing any of that I would presume that the user cannot
    see anything on the monitor and change the game. Just saying.


    3 hours.. slow internet, try the net install?

    not a problem by itself

    Add nomodeset to the grub boot options and see if that helps. What
    model nvidia: /sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -EA3 "VGA|Display|3D"

    That did help in that it provided an installation interface but the
    installed systemn GUI is 480 resolution which for all intent and purpose
    is unusable.

    on another (usable) system using kernel 6.5:

    # /sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -EA3 "VGA|Display|3D"
    08:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GK107
    [GeForce GT 640] [10de:0fc1] (rev a1)
    Subsystem: ZOTAC International (MCO) Ltd. Device [19da:1258]
    Kernel driver in use: nvidia
    Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia




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  • From Malcolm@malcolmlewis@linuxmail.org.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Mon Mar 4 16:24:45 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 17:01:27 -0500
    bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:

    On 3/3/24 21:52, Malcolm wrote:
    On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 21:21:54 -0500
    bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:

    On 3/2/24 20:19, bad sector wrote:
    Nvidia gk-107 card, same for installation or upgrade, function
    keys do nothing and after a while all dvd activity comes to a halt

    I was thinking of trying MICRO also but fear that it will do the
    same after another 3 hour download :-(

    Sure enough, same nothing; and these are 'installation' DVD's?

    If I were a developer, I think I would poll for rational keyboard
    or mouse input, failing any of that I would presume that the user
    cannot see anything on the monitor and change the game. Just
    saying.


    3 hours.. slow internet, try the net install?

    not a problem by itself

    Add nomodeset to the grub boot options and see if that helps. What
    model nvidia: /sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -EA3 "VGA|Display|3D"

    That did help in that it provided an installation interface but the installed systemn GUI is 480 resolution which for all intent and
    purpose is unusable.

    on another (usable) system using kernel 6.5:

    # /sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -EA3 "VGA|Display|3D"
    08:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GK107
    [GeForce GT 640] [10de:0fc1] (rev a1)
    Subsystem: ZOTAC International (MCO) Ltd. Device [19da:1258]
    Kernel driver in use: nvidia
    Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia




    Hi
    Yes, that is a result, but an indicator it's the nvidia driver

    Is nvidia_drm.modeset=1 or simplefb=1 present in the grub options? Did
    the G05 driver rebuild ok?

    I would suggest booting to multi-user.target (runlevel 3) and force the re-install of all the nvidia rpms...
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  • From bad sector@forgetski@_INVALID.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Mon Mar 4 19:45:28 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On 3/4/24 17:24, Malcolm wrote:
    On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 17:01:27 -0500
    bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:

    On 3/3/24 21:52, Malcolm wrote:
    On Sun, 3 Mar 2024 21:21:54 -0500
    bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:

    On 3/2/24 20:19, bad sector wrote:
    Nvidia gk-107 card, same for installation or upgrade, function
    keys do nothing and after a while all dvd activity comes to a halt

    I was thinking of trying MICRO also but fear that it will do the
    same after another 3 hour download :-(

    Sure enough, same nothing; and these are 'installation' DVD's?

    If I were a developer, I think I would poll for rational keyboard
    or mouse input, failing any of that I would presume that the user
    cannot see anything on the monitor and change the game. Just
    saying.


    3 hours.. slow internet, try the net install?

    not a problem by itself

    Add nomodeset to the grub boot options and see if that helps. What
    model nvidia: /sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -EA3 "VGA|Display|3D"

    That did help in that it provided an installation interface but the
    installed systemn GUI is 480 resolution which for all intent and
    purpose is unusable.

    on another (usable) system using kernel 6.5:

    # /sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -EA3 "VGA|Display|3D"
    08:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GK107
    [GeForce GT 640] [10de:0fc1] (rev a1)
    Subsystem: ZOTAC International (MCO) Ltd. Device [19da:1258]
    Kernel driver in use: nvidia
    Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

    Hi
    Yes, that is a result, but an indicator it's the nvidia driver

    Is nvidia_drm.modeset=1 or simplefb=1 present in the grub options?

    only 'nomodeset'


    Did the G05 driver rebuild ok?

    The above was on an older TW installation and the nvidia
    G05's are all installed, BUT booting kernel 6.7 still takes
    me only as far as a log-in prompt and that's on my Slowroll
    and both TW installations.

    On the freshie TW (I've never seen nvidia drivers installed
    by the installer at the time of imstallation)

    # /sbin/lspci -nnk | grep -EA3 "VGA|Display|3D"
    08:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA
    Corporation GK107 [GeForce GT 640] [10de:0fc1]
    (rev a1)
    Subsystem: ZOTAC International (MCO) Ltd. Device [19da:1258]
    *NB. no driver in use* <<<<<<<<<<<<<
    Kernel modules: nouveau

    I would suggest booting to multi-user.target (runlevel 3) and force the re-install of all the nvidia rpms...

    On this fresshie TW there is no internet and I cannot install
    anything that needs downloading. And what if I don't want any
    nvidia driver, is there no nouveau driver? Why is no driver
    'in use' in the above?

    On pre-6.7 installs I always got a high resolution GUI both
    for the installation and for initial use WITHOUT anything
    from nvidia. So what has changed this with 6.7?


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  • From Malcolm@malcolmlewis@linuxmail.org.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Mon Mar 4 21:39:10 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 19:45:28 -0500
    bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:

    <snip>

    On this fresshie TW there is no internet and I cannot install
    anything that needs downloading. And what if I don't want any
    nvidia driver, is there no nouveau driver? Why is no driver
    'in use' in the above?

    On pre-6.7 installs I always got a high resolution GUI both
    for the installation and for initial use WITHOUT anything
    from nvidia. So what has changed this with 6.7?


    Hi
    So are you using Xorg or Wayland?
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  • From bad sector@forgetski@_INVALID.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Tue Mar 5 07:53:07 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On 3/4/24 22:39, Malcolm wrote:
    On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 19:45:28 -0500
    bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:

    <snip>

    On this fresshie TW there is no internet and I cannot install
    anything that needs downloading. And what if I don't want any
    nvidia driver, is there no nouveau driver? Why is no driver
    'in use' in the above?

    On pre-6.7 installs I always got a high resolution GUI both
    for the installation and for initial use WITHOUT anything
    from nvidia. So what has changed this with 6.7?


    Hi
    So are you using Xorg or Wayland?


    Staying with the last TW freshie install, there's nothing 'Wayland' in
    the log-in screen DM menu but a couple of the entries are appended with
    (X11). With the probably anything but short-duration X11/Wayland debacle continuing it might be an idea to placard all of them all the time,
    which goes for grub menus too, always to include the exact disk &
    partition # even for the default entry.

    That said, I have yet to copy out the object of this doomsday message: "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt", especially if it refers to R&D/SOS.



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  • From Malcolm@malcolmlewis@linuxmail.org.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Tue Mar 5 07:21:55 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 07:53:07 -0500
    bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:

    On 3/4/24 22:39, Malcolm wrote:
    On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 19:45:28 -0500
    bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:

    <snip>

    On this fresshie TW there is no internet and I cannot install
    anything that needs downloading. And what if I don't want any
    nvidia driver, is there no nouveau driver? Why is no driver
    'in use' in the above?

    On pre-6.7 installs I always got a high resolution GUI both
    for the installation and for initial use WITHOUT anything
    from nvidia. So what has changed this with 6.7?


    Hi
    So are you using Xorg or Wayland?


    Staying with the last TW freshie install, there's nothing 'Wayland'
    in the log-in screen DM menu but a couple of the entries are appended
    with (X11). With the probably anything but short-duration X11/Wayland
    debacle continuing it might be an idea to placard all of them all the
    time, which goes for grub menus too, always to include the exact disk
    & partition # even for the default entry.

    That said, I have yet to copy out the object of this doomsday
    message: "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt", especially if it refers to R&D/SOS.



    Hi
    So any without an X11/Xorg reference are Wayland... So I'm assuming
    your running Plasma and SDDM?
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  • From bad sector@forgetski@_INVALID.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Tue Mar 5 16:29:02 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On 3/5/24 08:21, Malcolm wrote:
    On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 07:53:07 -0500
    bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:

    On 3/4/24 22:39, Malcolm wrote:
    On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 19:45:28 -0500
    bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:

    <snip>

    On this fresshie TW there is no internet and I cannot install
    anything that needs downloading. And what if I don't want any
    nvidia driver, is there no nouveau driver? Why is no driver
    'in use' in the above?

    On pre-6.7 installs I always got a high resolution GUI both
    for the installation and for initial use WITHOUT anything
    from nvidia. So what has changed this with 6.7?


    Hi
    So are you using Xorg or Wayland?


    Staying with the last TW freshie install, there's nothing 'Wayland'
    in the log-in screen DM menu but a couple of the entries are appended
    with (X11). With the probably anything but short-duration X11/Wayland
    debacle continuing it might be an idea to placard all of them all the
    time, which goes for grub menus too, always to include the exact disk
    & partition # even for the default entry.

    That said, I have yet to copy out the object of this doomsday
    message: "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt", especially if it refers to
    R&D/SOS.

    Hi
    So any without an X11/Xorg reference are Wayland... So I'm assuming
    your running Plasma and SDDM?


    During install I opted for Gnome, XFCE & Plasma. On the log-in DM
    choices list are:

    GNOME Classic on Xorg
    Gnome Classic
    Gnome on Xorg
    Ice WM session
    Plasma X11
    Xfce Session

    Of which 3 would then be X11 and 3 unknown because if there is X11 and
    Wayland then every one is either one of those, as placarded, or unknown.

    This log-in screen is I think SDDM but there is no mention of that
    either. Even though I have been unable to do anything before (beside
    booting and logging-in many times) the resolution is now up from 480 to
    1024 which makes it possible to connect the usb wifi among other things.
    No higher resolution is available in "Settings/Hardware/Dsiplays".
    When I launched Yast-Software to prioritize Packman-Essentials 4 repo-definition files were automatically updated. I "could" also add the nvidia repos and install their drivers and be done with it.

    Before doing that though, if at all, I want to get 1920 resolution with nouveau just as I had done with earlier kernels before 6.7. The purpose
    of my last two postings was to become able to use kernel 6.7 before, as
    this last TW snapshot confirmed, the earlier kernels vanish from the
    list. This seems to be well on the way now. Not being able to log-in at
    all with any 6.7 grub selection was most likely an os-prober fubar, and
    the second issue revolving around poor resolution with noveau seems to
    be improving by itself.



















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  • From Malcolm@malcolmlewis@linuxmail.org.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Tue Mar 5 15:51:21 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 16:29:02 -0500
    bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:

    On 3/5/24 08:21, Malcolm wrote:
    On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 07:53:07 -0500
    bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:

    On 3/4/24 22:39, Malcolm wrote:
    On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 19:45:28 -0500
    bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:

    <snip>

    On this fresshie TW there is no internet and I cannot install
    anything that needs downloading. And what if I don't want any
    nvidia driver, is there no nouveau driver? Why is no driver
    'in use' in the above?

    On pre-6.7 installs I always got a high resolution GUI both
    for the installation and for initial use WITHOUT anything
    from nvidia. So what has changed this with 6.7?


    Hi
    So are you using Xorg or Wayland?


    Staying with the last TW freshie install, there's nothing 'Wayland'
    in the log-in screen DM menu but a couple of the entries are
    appended with (X11). With the probably anything but short-duration
    X11/Wayland debacle continuing it might be an idea to placard all
    of them all the time, which goes for grub menus too, always to
    include the exact disk & partition # even for the default entry.

    That said, I have yet to copy out the object of this doomsday
    message: "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt", especially if it refers
    to R&D/SOS.

    Hi
    So any without an X11/Xorg reference are Wayland... So I'm assuming
    your running Plasma and SDDM?


    During install I opted for Gnome, XFCE & Plasma. On the log-in DM
    choices list are:

    GNOME Classic on Xorg
    Gnome Classic
    Gnome on Xorg
    Ice WM session
    Plasma X11
    Xfce Session

    Of which 3 would then be X11 and 3 unknown because if there is X11
    and Wayland then every one is either one of those, as placarded, or
    unknown.

    This log-in screen is I think SDDM but there is no mention of that
    either. Even though I have been unable to do anything before (beside
    booting and logging-in many times) the resolution is now up from 480
    to 1024 which makes it possible to connect the usb wifi among other
    things. No higher resolution is available in
    "Settings/Hardware/Dsiplays". When I launched Yast-Software to
    prioritize Packman-Essentials 4 repo-definition files were
    automatically updated. I "could" also add the nvidia repos and
    install their drivers and be done with it.

    Before doing that though, if at all, I want to get 1920 resolution
    with nouveau just as I had done with earlier kernels before 6.7. The
    purpose of my last two postings was to become able to use kernel 6.7
    before, as this last TW snapshot confirmed, the earlier kernels
    vanish from the list. This seems to be well on the way now. Not being
    able to log-in at all with any 6.7 grub selection was most likely an os-prober fubar, and the second issue revolving around poor
    resolution with noveau seems to be improving by itself.


    Hi
    So is xf86-video-nouveau installed?
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  • From bad sector@forgetski@_INVALID.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Tue Mar 5 19:34:33 2024
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    On 3/5/24 16:51, Malcolm wrote:

    Hi
    So is xf86-video-nouveau installed?

    It wasn't, no driver seems to have been installed at all. I installed it
    but System-Settings still does not offer more than 1024 resolution. Also
    did a zypper dup but that didn't improve things. It's quite possible
    that installing the nvidia driver will fix things but I'm going to keep
    this install as is until I can get nouveau to do 1920. It is capable of
    doing that isn't it?



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  • From Malcolm@malcolmlewis@linuxmail.org.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Tue Mar 5 19:32:54 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 19:34:33 -0500
    bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:

    On 3/5/24 16:51, Malcolm wrote:

    Hi
    So is xf86-video-nouveau installed?

    It wasn't, no driver seems to have been installed at all. I installed
    it but System-Settings still does not offer more than 1024
    resolution. Also did a zypper dup but that didn't improve things.
    It's quite possible that installing the nvidia driver will fix things
    but I'm going to keep this install as is until I can get nouveau to
    do 1920. It is capable of doing that isn't it?



    Hi
    Yes it should, but maybe switch to the other driver, see <https://forums.opensuse.org/t/amd-intel-nvidia-x-graphics-driver-primer-third-edition/148576>
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  • From bad sector@forgetski@_INVALID.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Thu Mar 7 07:51:06 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On 3/5/24 20:32, Malcolm wrote:
    On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 19:34:33 -0500
    bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:

    On 3/5/24 16:51, Malcolm wrote:

    Hi
    So is xf86-video-nouveau installed?

    It wasn't, no driver seems to have been installed at all. I installed
    it but System-Settings still does not offer more than 1024
    resolution. Also did a zypper dup but that didn't improve things.
    It's quite possible that installing the nvidia driver will fix things
    but I'm going to keep this install as is until I can get nouveau to
    do 1920. It is capable of doing that isn't it?



    Hi
    Yes it should, but maybe switch to the other driver, see

    I want to see nouveau do everything by itself first, THEN use nvidia
    drivers if and when I feel I must use them, ultimately revert to nouveau
    for the last dance. The ONLY time I EVER need nvidia is to run
    GE-Flight-Sim. The nvidia server BTW is usually slower than a dead dog
    or completely frozen, I've ben trying to install their drivers for tha
    last two days (I'll never buy anyything with anything related to nvidia
    in it again).


    <https://forums.opensuse.org/t/amd-intel-nvidia-x-graphics-driver-primer-third-edition/148576>

    When I 'install' a system from the freshest .iso it should WORK.

    There seem to be 2 misconceptions running about: that anything upped to
    the TW server has merely 'been compiled' and so is high risk at best,
    and the other that Linux is strictly comand-line stuff. The first dire
    warning applies to packages and never to the TW systems being installed
    from an iso as a whole AFAIK:

    "Continuously Updated. You install it once and enjoy it forever. No
    longer do you have to worry every six months about massive system
    upgrades that risk bricking your system. Leading-Edge. You get frequent updates that not only address vulnerabilities or squash bugs, but
    reflect latest features and developments, such as fresh kernels, fresh
    drivers and recent desktop environment versions. Stable. Updates are thoroughly tested against industry-grade quality standards, taking
    advantage of a build service other Linux distributions envy us. Not only
    is each new version of a package individually tested, but different
    clusters of versions are tested against each other, making sure your
    system is internally consistent."

    The second is that Linux users make Linux possible because they want 'to
    be able to use a cLi' if and when they so feel inclined AS OPPOSED TO
    having to use cLi all the time for everything.


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  • From Malcolm@malcolmlewis@linuxmail.org.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Thu Mar 7 07:09:00 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 07:51:06 -0500
    bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:

    On 3/5/24 20:32, Malcolm wrote:
    On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 19:34:33 -0500
    bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:

    On 3/5/24 16:51, Malcolm wrote:

    Hi
    So is xf86-video-nouveau installed?

    It wasn't, no driver seems to have been installed at all. I
    installed it but System-Settings still does not offer more than
    1024 resolution. Also did a zypper dup but that didn't improve
    things. It's quite possible that installing the nvidia driver will
    fix things but I'm going to keep this install as is until I can
    get nouveau to do 1920. It is capable of doing that isn't it?



    Hi
    Yes it should, but maybe switch to the other driver, see

    I want to see nouveau do everything by itself first, THEN use nvidia
    drivers if and when I feel I must use them, ultimately revert to
    nouveau for the last dance. The ONLY time I EVER need nvidia is to
    run GE-Flight-Sim. The nvidia server BTW is usually slower than a
    dead dog or completely frozen, I've ben trying to install their
    drivers for tha last two days (I'll never buy anyything with anything
    related to nvidia in it again).


    <https://forums.opensuse.org/t/amd-intel-nvidia-x-graphics-driver-primer-third-edition/148576>


    When I 'install' a system from the freshest .iso it should WORK.

    There seem to be 2 misconceptions running about: that anything upped
    to the TW server has merely 'been compiled' and so is high risk at
    best, and the other that Linux is strictly comand-line stuff. The
    first dire warning applies to packages and never to the TW systems
    being installed from an iso as a whole AFAIK:

    "Continuously Updated. You install it once and enjoy it forever. No
    longer do you have to worry every six months about massive system
    upgrades that risk bricking your system. Leading-Edge. You get
    frequent updates that not only address vulnerabilities or squash
    bugs, but reflect latest features and developments, such as fresh
    kernels, fresh drivers and recent desktop environment versions.
    Stable. Updates are thoroughly tested against industry-grade quality standards, taking advantage of a build service other Linux
    distributions envy us. Not only is each new version of a package
    individually tested, but different clusters of versions are tested
    against each other, making sure your system is internally consistent."

    The second is that Linux users make Linux possible because they want
    'to be able to use a cLi' if and when they so feel inclined AS
    OPPOSED TO having to use cLi all the time for everything.


    Hi
    Not had any issues with the Nvidia drivers here, on my Desktop I use
    the run file, on my Tumbleweed test system (Nvidia is offload) it uses
    the rpm... Both run GNOME DE... in fact for giggles a few weeks back on
    the test system I had it running the internal intel gpu (Primary
    graphics) and the following for offload, an ARC 380, a AMD RX550 and a
    Quadro K620 all at the same time all worked fine.
    --
    Cheers Malcolm -#-+-# (Linux Counter #276890)
    Tumbleweed 20240305 | GNOME Shell 45.3 | 6.7.7-1-default
    HP Z440 | Xeon E5-2695 V4 X36 @ 2.10GHz | Quadro T400/Tesla P4
    up 2 days 15:36, 2 users, load average: 0.33, 0.31, 0.26

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  • From bad sector@forgetski@_INVALID.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Thu Mar 7 16:15:05 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On 3/7/24 08:09, Malcolm wrote:

    Hi
    Not had any issues with the Nvidia drivers here, on my Desktop I use
    the run file, on my Tumbleweed test system (Nvidia is offload) it uses
    the rpm... Both run GNOME DE... in fact for giggles a few weeks back on
    the test system I had it running the internal intel gpu (Primary
    graphics) and the following for offload, an ARC 380, a AMD RX550 and a
    Quadro K620 all at the same time all worked fine.

    I have an nvidia card with a Slowroll system and an older TW system,
    plus a new TW system. ALL on KDE and on all of them booting the 6.7
    kernel gives me a black screen with no keyboard, the first two have
    nvidia drivers installed that work with kernel 6.5 but not 6.7. I
    managed to extricate the new TW system (kernel 6.7 only) from this
    predicament only days ago and only to 1024 resolution without using an
    nvidia driver.

    Maybe I should explore trying a noname el-cheapo and necessarily
    non-nvidia video card.
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  • From Malcolm@malcolmlewis@linuxmail.org.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Thu Mar 7 15:28:34 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 16:15:05 -0500
    bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> wrote:

    On 3/7/24 08:09, Malcolm wrote:

    Hi
    Not had any issues with the Nvidia drivers here, on my Desktop I use
    the run file, on my Tumbleweed test system (Nvidia is offload) it
    uses the rpm... Both run GNOME DE... in fact for giggles a few
    weeks back on the test system I had it running the internal intel
    gpu (Primary graphics) and the following for offload, an ARC 380, a
    AMD RX550 and a Quadro K620 all at the same time all worked fine.

    I have an nvidia card with a Slowroll system and an older TW system,
    plus a new TW system. ALL on KDE and on all of them booting the 6.7
    kernel gives me a black screen with no keyboard, the first two have
    nvidia drivers installed that work with kernel 6.5 but not 6.7. I
    managed to extricate the new TW system (kernel 6.7 only) from this predicament only days ago and only to 1024 resolution without using
    an nvidia driver.

    Maybe I should explore trying a noname el-cheapo and necessarily
    non-nvidia video card.
    Hi
    Sounds more like a Desktop Issue than hardware...

    At a tty login what does `inxi -Gxz` show?
    --
    Cheers Malcolm -#-+-# (Linux Counter #276890)
    Tumbleweed 20240305 | GNOME Shell 45.3 | 6.7.7-1-default
    HP Z440 | Xeon E5-2695 V4 X36 @ 2.10GHz | Quadro T400/Tesla P4
    up 2 days 23:58, 2 users, load average: 0.24, 0.28, 0.20

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  • From Carlos E.R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Thu Mar 7 22:54:48 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On 2024-03-07 22:15, bad sector wrote:
    On 3/7/24 08:09, Malcolm wrote:

    Hi
    Not had any issues with the Nvidia drivers here, on my Desktop I use
    the run file, on my Tumbleweed test system (Nvidia is offload) it uses
    the rpm... Both run GNOME DE... in fact for giggles a few weeks back on
    the test system I had it running the internal intel gpu (Primary
    graphics) and the following for offload, an ARC 380, a AMD RX550 and a
    Quadro K620 all at the same time all worked fine.

    I have an nvidia card with a Slowroll system and an older TW system,
    plus a new TW system. ALL on KDE and on all of them booting the 6.7
    kernel gives me a black screen with no keyboard, the first two have
    nvidia drivers installed that work with kernel 6.5 but not 6.7. I
    managed to extricate the new TW system (kernel 6.7 only) from this predicament only days ago and only to 1024 resolution without using an nvidia driver.

    Maybe I should explore trying a noname el-cheapo and necessarily
    non-nvidia video card.

    I have no problems with AMD. I had Nvidia all my life, not going back to
    them. With AMD I don't have to install any driver, it works out of the
    box, even with 3D games (the penguin races or flightgear).

    Graphics:
    Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-4
    code: Arctic Islands process: GF 14nm built: 2016-20 pcie: gen: 3
    speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DVI-D-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2,
    HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 27:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:67df class-ID: 0300
    temp: 42.0 C


    It is a cheap card.

    There is some proprietary blurb I can install, but I haven't bothered.
    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From bad sector@forgetski@_INVALID.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Thu Mar 7 23:19:30 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On 3/7/24 16:54, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2024-03-07 22:15, bad sector wrote:
    On 3/7/24 08:09, Malcolm wrote:

    Hi
    Not had any issues with the Nvidia drivers here, on my Desktop I use
    the run file, on my Tumbleweed test system (Nvidia is offload) it uses
    the rpm... Both run GNOME DE... in fact for giggles a few weeks back on
    the test system I had it running the internal intel gpu (Primary
    graphics) and the following for offload, an ARC 380, a AMD RX550 and a
    Quadro K620 all at the same time all worked fine.

    I have an nvidia card with a Slowroll system and an older TW system,
    plus a new TW system. ALL on KDE and on all of them booting the 6.7
    kernel gives me a black screen with no keyboard, the first two have
    nvidia drivers installed that work with kernel 6.5 but not 6.7. I
    managed to extricate the new TW system (kernel 6.7 only) from this
    predicament only days ago and only to 1024 resolution without using an
    nvidia driver.

    Maybe I should explore trying a noname el-cheapo and necessarily
    non-nvidia video card.

    I have no problems with AMD. I had Nvidia all my life, not going back to them. With AMD I don't have to install any driver, it works out of the
    box, even with 3D games (the penguin races or flightgear).

    Graphics:
    -a Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
    -a-a-a vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-4
    -a-a-a code: Arctic Islands process: GF 14nm built: 2016-20 pcie: gen: 3
    -a-a-a speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DVI-D-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2,
    -a-a-a HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 27:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:67df class-ID: 0300
    -a-a-a temp: 42.0 C

    It is a cheap card.

    There is some proprietary blurb I can install, but I haven't bothered.

    With all the talk about nvidia having (finally) come to their senses I
    don't want to end up with a new card and the day after the end of all
    problems with nvidia anyway. What the hell, I'll sell the nvidia after...




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  • From Carlos E.R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Fri Mar 8 12:05:23 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On 2024-03-08 05:19, bad sector wrote:
    On 3/7/24 16:54, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2024-03-07 22:15, bad sector wrote:
    On 3/7/24 08:09, Malcolm wrote:

    Hi
    Not had any issues with the Nvidia drivers here, on my Desktop I use
    the run file, on my Tumbleweed test system (Nvidia is offload) it uses >>>> the rpm... Both run GNOME DE... in fact for giggles a few weeks back on >>>> the test system I had it running the internal intel gpu (Primary
    graphics) and the following for offload, an ARC 380, a AMD RX550 and a >>>> Quadro K620 all at the same time all worked fine.

    I have an nvidia card with a Slowroll system and an older TW system,
    plus a new TW system. ALL on KDE and on all of them booting the 6.7
    kernel gives me a black screen with no keyboard, the first two have
    nvidia drivers installed that work with kernel 6.5 but not 6.7. I
    managed to extricate the new TW system (kernel 6.7 only) from this
    predicament only days ago and only to 1024 resolution without using
    an nvidia driver.

    Maybe I should explore trying a noname el-cheapo and necessarily
    non-nvidia video card.

    I have no problems with AMD. I had Nvidia all my life, not going back
    to them. With AMD I don't have to install any driver, it works out of
    the box, even with 3D games (the penguin races or flightgear).

    Graphics:
    -a-a Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
    -a-a-a-a vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-4
    -a-a-a-a code: Arctic Islands process: GF 14nm built: 2016-20 pcie: gen: 3 >> -a-a-a-a speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DVI-D-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, >> -a-a-a-a HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 27:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:67df class-ID: 0300
    -a-a-a-a temp: 42.0 C

    It is a cheap card.

    There is some proprietary blurb I can install, but I haven't bothered.

    With all the talk about nvidia having (finally) come to their senses I
    don't want to end up with a new card and the day after the end of all problems with nvidia anyway. What the hell, I'll sell the nvidia after...

    If it is an expensive, good, nvidia card, I would try hard and long.

    In my case, when I had to replace the computer, I changed video brand.
    The old machine is still using nvidia with nouveau, but experiences locks.
    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From bad sector@forgetski@_INVALID.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Sun Mar 10 12:50:09 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On 3/8/24 06:05, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2024-03-08 05:19, bad sector wrote:
    On 3/7/24 16:54, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2024-03-07 22:15, bad sector wrote:
    On 3/7/24 08:09, Malcolm wrote:

    Hi
    Not had any issues with the Nvidia drivers here, on my Desktop I use >>>>> the run file, on my Tumbleweed test system (Nvidia is offload) it uses >>>>> the rpm... Both run GNOME DE... in fact for giggles a few weeks
    back on
    the test system I had it running the internal intel gpu (Primary
    graphics) and the following for offload, an ARC 380, a AMD RX550 and a >>>>> Quadro K620 all at the same time all worked fine.

    I have an nvidia card with a Slowroll system and an older TW system,
    plus a new TW system. ALL on KDE and on all of them booting the 6.7
    kernel gives me a black screen with no keyboard, the first two have
    nvidia drivers installed that work with kernel 6.5 but not 6.7. I
    managed to extricate the new TW system (kernel 6.7 only) from this
    predicament only days ago and only to 1024 resolution without using
    an nvidia driver.

    Maybe I should explore trying a noname el-cheapo and necessarily
    non-nvidia video card.

    I have no problems with AMD. I had Nvidia all my life, not going back
    to them. With AMD I don't have to install any driver, it works out of
    the box, even with 3D games (the penguin races or flightgear).

    Graphics:
    -a-a Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
    -a-a-a-a vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-4
    -a-a-a-a code: Arctic Islands process: GF 14nm built: 2016-20 pcie: gen: 3 >>> -a-a-a-a speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DVI-D-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, >>> -a-a-a-a HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 27:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:67df class-ID: >>> 0300
    -a-a-a-a temp: 42.0 C

    It is a cheap card.

    There is some proprietary blurb I can install, but I haven't bothered.

    With all the talk about nvidia having (finally) come to their senses I
    don't want to end up with a new card and the day after the end of all
    problems with nvidia anyway. What the hell, I'll sell the nvidia after...

    If it is an expensive, good, nvidia card, I would try hard and long.

    In my case, when I had to replace the computer, I changed video brand.
    The old machine is still using nvidia with nouveau, but experiences locks.


    It cost around $200 years ago, good enough technically but if I had
    known the driver hell it woud bring me I would NEVER have bought it, the
    AMD should be here this week



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  • From bad sector@forgetski@_INVALID.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Tue Mar 12 15:25:12 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On 3/7/24 16:54, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2024-03-07 22:15, bad sector wrote:
    On 3/7/24 08:09, Malcolm wrote:

    Hi
    Not had any issues with the Nvidia drivers here, on my Desktop I use
    the run file, on my Tumbleweed test system (Nvidia is offload) it uses
    the rpm... Both run GNOME DE... in fact for giggles a few weeks back on
    the test system I had it running the internal intel gpu (Primary
    graphics) and the following for offload, an ARC 380, a AMD RX550 and a
    Quadro K620 all at the same time all worked fine.

    I have an nvidia card with a Slowroll system and an older TW system,
    plus a new TW system. ALL on KDE and on all of them booting the 6.7
    kernel gives me a black screen with no keyboard, the first two have
    nvidia drivers installed that work with kernel 6.5 but not 6.7. I
    managed to extricate the new TW system (kernel 6.7 only) from this
    predicament only days ago and only to 1024 resolution without using an
    nvidia driver.

    Maybe I should explore trying a noname el-cheapo and necessarily
    non-nvidia video card.

    I have no problems with AMD. I had Nvidia all my life, not going back to them. With AMD I don't have to install any driver, it works out of the
    box, even with 3D games (the penguin races or flightgear).

    Graphics:
    -a Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
    -a-a-a vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-4
    -a-a-a code: Arctic Islands process: GF 14nm built: 2016-20 pcie: gen: 3
    -a-a-a speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DVI-D-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2,
    -a-a-a HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 27:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:67df class-ID: 0300
    -a-a-a temp: 42.0 C


    It is a cheap card.

    Bought a used 580, works like a charm, thanks for mentioning AMD




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  • From Carlos E.R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Tue Mar 12 22:06:36 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On 2024-03-10 17:50, bad sector wrote:
    On 3/8/24 06:05, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2024-03-08 05:19, bad sector wrote:
    On 3/7/24 16:54, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2024-03-07 22:15, bad sector wrote:
    On 3/7/24 08:09, Malcolm wrote:



    If it is an expensive, good, nvidia card, I would try hard and long.

    In my case, when I had to replace the computer, I changed video brand.
    The old machine is still using nvidia with nouveau, but experiences
    locks.


    It cost around $200 years ago, good enough technically but if I had
    known the driver hell it woud bring me I would NEVER have bought it, the
    AMD should be here this week

    AMD could be hell ages ago; I don't remember the details, but they
    stopped supporting certain range of cards, and the Linux own support was primitive. Then one day AMD decided to do something in the line of
    opening up their drivers or specs or both (again, I don't remember the details). The thing is, that now their cards work very well out of the
    box. The situation should be similar to Intel graphics, but Intel
    neglects to solve bugs. I have a light machine and two laptops with
    Intel graphics, and all have one problem or another.
    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From Carlos E.R.@robin_listas@es.invalid to alt.os.linux.suse on Tue Mar 12 22:07:53 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On 2024-03-12 20:25, bad sector wrote:
    On 3/7/24 16:54, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2024-03-07 22:15, bad sector wrote:
    On 3/7/24 08:09, Malcolm wrote:

    Hi
    Not had any issues with the Nvidia drivers here, on my Desktop I use
    the run file, on my Tumbleweed test system (Nvidia is offload) it uses >>>> the rpm... Both run GNOME DE... in fact for giggles a few weeks back on >>>> the test system I had it running the internal intel gpu (Primary
    graphics) and the following for offload, an ARC 380, a AMD RX550 and a >>>> Quadro K620 all at the same time all worked fine.

    I have an nvidia card with a Slowroll system and an older TW system,
    plus a new TW system. ALL on KDE and on all of them booting the 6.7
    kernel gives me a black screen with no keyboard, the first two have
    nvidia drivers installed that work with kernel 6.5 but not 6.7. I
    managed to extricate the new TW system (kernel 6.7 only) from this
    predicament only days ago and only to 1024 resolution without using
    an nvidia driver.

    Maybe I should explore trying a noname el-cheapo and necessarily
    non-nvidia video card.

    I have no problems with AMD. I had Nvidia all my life, not going back
    to them. With AMD I don't have to install any driver, it works out of
    the box, even with 3D games (the penguin races or flightgear).

    Graphics:
    -a-a Device-1: AMD Ellesmere [Radeon RX 470/480/570/570X/580/580X/590]
    -a-a-a-a vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-4
    -a-a-a-a code: Arctic Islands process: GF 14nm built: 2016-20 pcie: gen: 3 >> -a-a-a-a speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DVI-D-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, >> -a-a-a-a HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 27:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:67df class-ID: 0300
    -a-a-a-a temp: 42.0 C


    It is a cheap card.

    Bought a used 580, works like a charm, thanks for mentioning AMD

    Wow. That was fast. Good for you :-)
    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From bad sector@forgetski@_INVALID.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Tue Mar 12 17:44:40 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On 3/12/24 17:06, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2024-03-10 17:50, bad sector wrote:
    On 3/8/24 06:05, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2024-03-08 05:19, bad sector wrote:
    On 3/7/24 16:54, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2024-03-07 22:15, bad sector wrote:
    On 3/7/24 08:09, Malcolm wrote:

    If it is an expensive, good, nvidia card, I would try hard and long.

    In my case, when I had to replace the computer, I changed video
    brand. The old machine is still using nvidia with nouveau, but
    experiences locks.

    It cost around $200 years ago, good enough technically but if I had
    known the driver hell it woud bring me I would NEVER have bought it,
    the AMD should be here this week

    AMD could be hell ages ago; I don't remember the details, but they
    stopped supporting certain range of cards, and the Linux own support was primitive. Then one day AMD decided to do something in the line of
    opening up their drivers or specs or both (again, I don't remember the details). The thing is, that now their cards work very well out of the
    box. The situation should be similar to Intel graphics, but Intel
    neglects to solve bugs. I have a light machine and two laptops with
    Intel graphics, and all have one problem or another.

    Similar story, in another life the 'other' (radion) cards had huge Linux driver problems and that's why i went to nvidia; looks like it's gone
    full circle ..or at least a 180 :-)


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  • From R Daneel Olivaw@Danny@hyperspace.vogon.gov to alt.os.linux.suse on Wed Mar 13 08:26:27 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    bad sector wrote:
    On 3/12/24 17:06, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2024-03-10 17:50, bad sector wrote:
    On 3/8/24 06:05, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2024-03-08 05:19, bad sector wrote:
    On 3/7/24 16:54, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2024-03-07 22:15, bad sector wrote:
    On 3/7/24 08:09, Malcolm wrote:

    If it is an expensive, good, nvidia card, I would try hard and long.

    In my case, when I had to replace the computer, I changed video
    brand. The old machine is still using nvidia with nouveau, but
    experiences locks.

    It cost around $200 years ago, good enough technically but if I had
    known the driver hell it woud bring me I would NEVER have bought it,
    the AMD should be here this week

    AMD could be hell ages ago; I don't remember the details, but they
    stopped supporting certain range of cards, and the Linux own support
    was primitive. Then one day AMD decided to do something in the line of
    opening up their drivers or specs or both (again, I don't remember the
    details). The thing is, that now their cards work very well out of the
    box. The situation should be similar to Intel graphics, but Intel
    neglects to solve bugs. I have a light machine and two laptops with
    Intel graphics, and all have one problem or another.

    Similar story, in another life the 'other' (radion) cards had huge Linux driver problems and that's why i went to nvidia; looks like it's gone
    full circle-a ..or at least a 180 :-)



    The last time I went for nVidia was in 2008, and even then it was
    because I'd forgotten to check what graphics the PC I was buying had.
    Can't complain though, that machine worked (mostly) with nouveau until
    it ceased working altogether.
    The (mostly) was when the openSuse maintainer released a broken patch
    for the kernel just before going on holiday for a few weeks, nouveau was totally broken under that kernel until he came back. At least the
    previous kernel worked fine.
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  • From bad sector@forgetski@_INVALID.net to alt.os.linux.suse on Wed Mar 13 18:35:44 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.suse

    On 3/13/24 03:26, R Daneel Olivaw wrote:
    bad sector wrote:
    On 3/12/24 17:06, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2024-03-10 17:50, bad sector wrote:
    On 3/8/24 06:05, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2024-03-08 05:19, bad sector wrote:
    On 3/7/24 16:54, Carlos E.R. wrote:
    On 2024-03-07 22:15, bad sector wrote:
    On 3/7/24 08:09, Malcolm wrote:

    If it is an expensive, good, nvidia card, I would try hard and long. >>>>>
    In my case, when I had to replace the computer, I changed video
    brand. The old machine is still using nvidia with nouveau, but
    experiences locks.

    It cost around $200 years ago, good enough technically but if I had
    known the driver hell it woud bring me I would NEVER have bought it,
    the AMD should be here this week

    AMD could be hell ages ago; I don't remember the details, but they
    stopped supporting certain range of cards, and the Linux own support
    was primitive. Then one day AMD decided to do something in the line
    of opening up their drivers or specs or both (again, I don't remember
    the details). The thing is, that now their cards work very well out
    of the box. The situation should be similar to Intel graphics, but
    Intel neglects to solve bugs. I have a light machine and two laptops
    with Intel graphics, and all have one problem or another.

    Similar story, in another life the 'other' (radion) cards had huge
    Linux driver problems and that's why i went to nvidia; looks like it's
    gone full circle-a ..or at least a 180 :-)

    The last time I went for nVidia was in 2008, and even then it was
    because I'd forgotten to check what graphics the PC I was buying had.
    Can't complain though, that machine worked (mostly) with nouveau until
    it ceased working altogether.
    The (mostly) was when the openSuse maintainer released a broken patch
    for the kernel just before going on holiday for a few weeks, nouveau was totally broken under that kernel until he came back.-a At least the
    previous kernel worked fine.

    That kind of problem is managable by backing up with dd so that there
    are always two generations of copies of 'working' partitions. My issue
    with nvidia has been the interminably difficult downloads, speeds slower
    than a dead dog os fully stopped, and lastly that the card wasn't
    working at all with kernel 6.7 regardless of driver used (nouveau gave
    me a low resolution desktop 1024 at best) so I asked myself what the
    hell am I going to do when 6.7 is the oldest kernel around? I'm no guru
    who can wiggle his way out of any predicament, so had I known that the
    once bitchy radion had become a socially reconfigured AMD card I would
    swapped out the nvidia a LOOOOOONG time ago!


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