SDB Talk:NVIDIA the hard way
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Blacklist nouveau
The Nvidia installer creates the file /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf , which blacklists nouveau; removing the file re-enables nouveau. I recommend someone who is more experienced than me in editing wikis to add this to the page.
- Amadesu (2011/05/22)
Title
I think that the title "the hard way" is a bit too discouraging. What about calling it simply "classical way" or "manual driver installation" or similar? Just my 2 ct.
- Martin helm
OSC
The osc part isn't clear enough for someone who hasn't used openSUSE before, I suppose. There should be a link or some explanation about how the command osc works. I had no clue about what the username and password was, (I entered my system username and password, i.e., sudo password). There should at least be some reference to creating a SUSE account and using that as credentials.
- Memet
It seems cleaner to move this section (Alternative, based on OBS) to it's own page, since it's a totally different method.
Ravas (talk) 01:08, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
I've moved the section to its own article: SDB:NVIDIA using osc
Ravas (talk) 19:36, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
Dependencies
It works fine for me on the 11.4RCs with the latest 260 driver. I've also found that "kernel-devel" appears to be sufficient (which is what the package descriptions imply) and saves 300+MB.
-IBBoard
Ravas (talk) 07:55, 15 February 2018 (UTC)
libglvnd
zypper se libglvnd* produces no results on Leap 42.3
This is apparently now provided by the installer.
https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/390.25/README/installedcomponents.html
Ravas (talk) 18:26, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
mkinitrd
In what situation is mkinitrd actually needed?
Ravas (talk) 08:41, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/529709-Is-nouveau-in-the-initial-ramdisk-image
Ravas (talk) 23:22, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
Additions to the current procedure
I removed the newly added suggested seen here:
This is not needed if you follow the instructions in the previous section. Further, I think you would want to use "stop" not "disable".
I did a lot of testing to find the most efficient procedure that consistently works. If anyone comes up with a superior procedure, then please discuss it here first. I want to avoid this article becoming a hodgepodge again.
Ravas (talk) 01:25, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
Is the suggestion to remove the drm-kmp-default correct?
A user comments in this post about how the remove of the drm-kmp-default makes the system unbootable and they provide a workaround for this issue. Is there any merit to this criticism of the process outlined in the wiki currently? Should the wiki be updated to reflect this workaround for a potentially common issue? Wandadars (talk) 16:32, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
NVIDIA modesetting
Under: "Enabling NVIDIA modesetting" it mentions: "You can do this by adding these to your modprobe configuration..." However, it is not mentioned anywhere where you should do this exactly. Does anybody know and can this be added?
Is this way correct? To add a file under /etc/modprobe.d/?
For example: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf
And then simply add the folowing?
nouveau.modeset=0
modprobe.blacklist=nouveau
rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau
nvidia-drm.modeset=1
Also, I noticed that modesetting also needs to be set when wanting to use wayland under KDE (and possible more DE's) Something also stated in the arch wiki here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#DRM_kernel_mode_setting
Should this be added to the instructions as well?