SDB Talk:NVIDIA drivers

Should add the necissity to remove nouveau before

Should add a section prerequisites with the removal of nouveau as it brings the system in a bad state without graphics if you just follow the manual step by step --Jorauch 10:17, 23 March 2020

The removal of nouveau is not essential to start using the NVIDIA driver. When the relevant NVIDIA packages are installed correctly, your GRUB configuration is modified to prevent nouveau from being loaded. rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau will be added to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub for this. Changes to this file only take effect if grub2-mkconfig is executed to generate a new grub.cfg. --Usessuse (talk) 21:33, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Adding NVIDIA repository still relevant?

The article has a section on adding the NVIDIA repository, which confuses me. I recently installed Tumbleweed from scratch and I didn't have to manually add the repo. Is it still relevant? If not I could remove it. --Usessuse (talk) 21:10, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

As not everybody uses the openSUSE-repos-Tumbleweed-NVIDIA package (or the equivalent packages for other openSUSE flavors), the NVIDIA repo is not installed automatically on all systems. Additionally, many users don't use the above mentioned packages at all, as they prefer to handle repositories manually, and not by a service. Therfore the wiki contains instructions how to add the NVIDIA repo. If this technical instruction confuses you, don't touch it and don't vandalize this article please. Thanks! Hui (talk) 11:48, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

Automatic installation not working on Tumbleweed

I just tested the 'Automated installation (tested on Tumbleweed)' and it's not working for me. According to zypper repos the pre-installed NVIDIA repository was called NVIDIA:repo-non-free, so I did sudo zypper install-new-recommends --repo NVIDIA:repo-non-free with the relevant NVIDIA packages not installed.

This happened:

Refreshing service 'NVIDIA'.
Refreshing service 'openSUSE'.
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...
Nothing to do.

If there's another way to make it work I'd be happy to update the wiki accordingly. Otherwise it's best that we remove it in the interest of keeping the instructions accurate. My card needs the G06 packages, in case that makes a difference.

The instructions work absolutely flawlessly. Do not vandalize the article if instructions don't work for you (for whatever reason).

alterpc:~ # zypper inr --repo repo-non-free
Refreshing service 'NVIDIA'.
Refreshing service 'openSUSE'.
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...
The following 6 NEW packages are going to be installed:
  nvidia-computeG04 nvidia-computeG04-32bit nvidia-glG04 nvidia-glG04-32bit x11-video-nvidiaG04 x11-video-nvidiaG04-32bit
6 new packages to install.
Package download size:    76.5 MiB
Package install size change:
              |     314.1 MiB  required by packages that will be installed
   314.1 MiB  |  -      0 B    released by packages that will be removed
Backend:  classic_rpmtrans
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Hui (talk) 11:53, 11 April 2025 (UTC)