Well after finally getting Rocky Linux on the nvme drive – FINALLY – figured out, but running nouveau on my GeForce GT730 ( don’t go there!! I have a Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050 TI VGA and non VGA editions but saving that for another post – I made an interest discovery there. At the current time, the 730 is “Good Enough”) I bit the bullet and decided to try and install the Nvidia drivers. Here are the instructions I followed:
I first tried this on the jaguar, my “Kitty Litter Box” that is currently running Rocky Linux 8.5, so I knew what types of problems I may encounter on ocelot. The first thing I did was to backup the Rocky Linux drive if everything went south.
I followed the destructions to the letter, then rebooted. Nvidia popped up without incident in both cases. with one minor fly in the ointment: The resolution topped out at 1024x 768 (? or something like that ) and did not see my Ben Q monitor that is 1920 x 1080 resolution. I found no solution on how to fix the problem. So having done this a number of times in jaguar I found I could safely run the command:
dnf remove nvidia-driver
to be returned back to the nouveau driver and back to 1920 x 1080 resolution. Another small fly in the ointment: when I rebooted ocelot I no longer could get back into Rocky Linux!! (No problem in jaguar however). I then tried about 3-4 times to “backdoor” my way into Rocky from the openSUSE menu. Once I got in the Rocky 8.5 menu actually began to work. (glad I had made the Backup of the RL nvme drive none the less: I actually thought I might need it for a moment).
Here is the list of the HW and Software:
Monitor: Ben Q 24"
Graphics Card: Nvidia GeForce GT 730
Video Input: VGA
Current Driver: Nouveau
Storage Device: Corsair Force MP 600 NVMe (4th Gen.) – 1TB
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
RAM Memory: 64 GB, GSkill 3600 MHz
OS: Rocky Linux 8.5
DE: KDE 5.23.3
Kernel Ver.: 4.18.0-348.23.1.el8_5.x86_64 (64bit)
Graphics Platform: KDE X11
The Answer MIGHT be found somewhere in /etc/X11 or in /etc/modprobe.d, but it might be in any of a number of config files located in??? If it IS located in either X11 or modprobe.d does it mean I have to FIRST have to create by hand some config files BEFORE I run the Nvidia Driver Installer program (as above), so that when I do run the destruction program it will find them all set up?
Using leopard (running CentOS 7.9) as a model, under /etc/X11/nvidia-xorg.conf I find the following:
Section “Device”
Identifier “Videocard0”
Driver “nvidia”
EndSection
… or do I need to include something like this (cribbed from panther – a very, very old gateway):
Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Monitor0”
ModelName “BenQ GW2450H (autoconfigured)”
EndSection
Section “Screen”
Identifier “Screen0”
Device “Videocard0”
Monitor “Monitor0”
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
And finally there is “Blacklisting Nouveau” under modprobe.d. Do I have to create by hand such a file? Do I need such a file?
I am really lost and am hoping someone has run into this problem and figured out how to solve it. Mine are, at best, pure guesses at best cribbed from 3 other computers.
This has me stumped. While I can mess around in the “Kitty Litter Box” and if I blow it up… no big loss; the same can’t be said if I blow up ocelot, and I came r-e-a-l close this after noon. Nouveau may suck, but at least it works, and the default resolution is the correct 1920x1080. Any help someone could provide would be greatly appreciated.
D’ Cat