There is a tendency to refer to the manual method of installing Nvidia drivers as the hard way. If you repeat something often enough, it still doesnt make it true.
There is nothing hard about installing the drivers manually.
This guide uses the terminal and wget command to download the Nvidia driver to your /home/username/Downloads folder. You may if you wish use your web browser although I suggest keeping the Nvidia driver in your Downloads folder as it may be useful at a later date.
Please note the current latest driver 270.41.06 does not support GeForce 5 Series or older. Such users will need to use the legacy drivers instead.
For a list of supported devices see here - http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-270.41.06-driver.html
1. Start
Open a terminal
2. Install required packages
3. Prevent the nouveau driver from loading
Please copy and paste the below as one line, you may have to press enter
4. Download the Nvidia driver
(64-bit users)
(32-bit users)
5. Reboot your system into run level 3
At the openSUSE boot screen make sure your Kernel entry is selected, type the number 3 as illustrated in the screenshot and press enter.
This will cause openSUSE to boot to a console terminal, login using your normal user details.
6. Install the Nvidia driver
(64-bit users)
(32-bit users)
7. Once the installer has completed, reboot your system
Remember that every time your Kernel is updated you will need to rebuild the Nvidia Kernel module.
8. Rebuilding the Nvidia module after a Kernel update
Boot into run level 3 as described above, login using your normal user details,
(64-bit users)
(32-bit users)
Then reboot your system.
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There is nothing hard about installing the drivers manually.
This guide uses the terminal and wget command to download the Nvidia driver to your /home/username/Downloads folder. You may if you wish use your web browser although I suggest keeping the Nvidia driver in your Downloads folder as it may be useful at a later date.
Please note the current latest driver 270.41.06 does not support GeForce 5 Series or older. Such users will need to use the legacy drivers instead.
For a list of supported devices see here - http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-270.41.06-driver.html
1. Start
Open a terminal
2. Install required packages
su -c zypper install gcc make kernel-devel
3. Prevent the nouveau driver from loading
su -c echo "blacklist nouveau" > /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf
Please copy and paste the below as one line, you may have to press enter
su -c # recreate initrd without KMS, if the use of KMS is enabled in initrd
if grep -q NO_KMS_IN_INITRD="no" /etc/sysconfig/kernel; then
sed -i s/NO_KMS_IN_INITRD.*/NO_KMS_IN_INITRD="yes"/g /etc/sysconfig/kernel
mkinitrd
fi
4. Download the Nvidia driver
(64-bit users)
cd Downloads
wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/270.41.06/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-270.41.06.run
(32-bit users)
cd Downloads
wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/270.41.06/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-270.41.06.run
5. Reboot your system into run level 3
At the openSUSE boot screen make sure your Kernel entry is selected, type the number 3 as illustrated in the screenshot and press enter.
This will cause openSUSE to boot to a console terminal, login using your normal user details.
6. Install the Nvidia driver
(64-bit users)
cd Downloads
su -c sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-270.41.06.run -a -q
(32-bit users)
cd Downloads
su -c NVIDIA-Linux-x86-270.41.06.run-a -q
7. Once the installer has completed, reboot your system
su -c reboot
Remember that every time your Kernel is updated you will need to rebuild the Nvidia Kernel module.
8. Rebuilding the Nvidia module after a Kernel update
Boot into run level 3 as described above, login using your normal user details,
(64-bit users)
cd Downloads
su -c sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-270.41.06.run -K
(32-bit users)
cd Downloads
su -c sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-270.41.06.run -K
Then reboot your system.