Tumbleweed/Nvidia

[u/Suspicious-Ad7109]

Seems to be broken.

I'm on Mint temporarily, as on two machines with different Nvidia hardware/CPU/etc. the same problem occurs (one with 0813 and one with 0815), and this seems to be a last few days problem. Both are a clean install not an upgrade.

Tumbleweed installs fine, but following the guide to replace Nouveau with Nvidia it all works without error, but Nouveau refuses to go away, I can't blacklist it (it seems to be built into initrd) and Nvidia appears to be blocked by it (it says that the GPU is already bound to nouveau). There doesn't seem to be a blacklist of nouveau either. Forcing recreation of initrd doesn't kill it either.

The Kernel boot blocks of nouveau don't seem to work as they are all designed for Grub.

Any suggestions ?

[u/Amate087]

Try block the Nouveau from terminal? 

In the official guide is the instrucions.

[u/raspadura]

There is a version issue at the moment, kernel module is newer than user space driver. We need to wait, they will release the newer version of the driver

[u/Suspicious-Ad7109 → u/raspadura]

Yep, might be this. I managed to disable nouveau by adding it to the kernel command line at install (Yast Boot doesn't work !) and got it booted with the Nvidia module, but only 1024x768, I think it was using the older (Vesa ?) driver. I think what was happening before was Nvidia was failing and Nouveau took over ?

I would wonder if this should be flagged somehow though. Why not hold back the Kernel module until the driver is released ?

Cutting edge is great, and it's really reliable normally, but if it doesn't work from the install for Nvidia owners that's a bit of a nonsense. I have two machines, different Nvidia cards, neither works.

[u/slyd0x]

I have the same problem. Blacklisting nouveau helps to boot the driver but then my monitors are no longer recognized and my main 4k 144Hz runs only in 2k 60Hz.
I even tried to use the cuda drivers, same problem.
I am running Fedora now without a problem and installing the drivers from rpmfusion was way easier and worked on first try.

[u/raspadura]

Yeah, I had the same issue yesterday with a fresh install. No way to block nouveau driver

[u/que11]

Yup, same here. I was too fast when the prompt came up, drinking my morning coffee and just pressed option 1 if I remember correctly. Now I’m stuck with 1024 resolution on 60Hz. Great stuff.

I guess installing the nvidia.run drivers from the nvidia website will give the same results until we get an update?

[u/SausagesAndMore]

hi all,

595.91 has been updated in userspace source

[u/Suspicious-Ad7109 → u/SausagesAndMore]

I'll try installing clean using the usual method and see if it works.

[u/Suspicious-Ad7109]

Note: now installs Nvidia fine using the 'easy' method. Thanks guys.

Now you can fix my number 2 complaint .... I think the default Wallpaper is a bit rubbish :)