Note: Specific video cards are mapped to the following naming convention listed below. The driver decides during startup whether it supports this GPU or not. openSUSE provides unified Linux driver for all flavours: GeForce and Quadro, desktop and mobile. This is not true for Linux drivers (more info here). Beware: Nvidia's site may declare shorter support period with the same chip for mobile graphics compared to desktop video cards. One way to determine the appropriate driver is to input your hardware information into Nvidia's driver search engine. This information is also available in the Display subsection at YaST Hardware Information. Tumbleweed # zypper addrepo -refresh NVIDIA Zypper Leap # zypper addrepo -refresh ' $releasever' NVIDIA Select NVIDIA Graphics Drivers, then click OK.

Click Add (in the bottom left), then select Community Repositories.Open YaST, then click Software Repositories.Conveniently, NVIDIA has an openSUSE repository that can be added and downloaded from. The NVIDIA drivers can not be included with openSUSE because of their license. Multiversion = provides:multiversion(kernel) have the following entry in /etc/zypp/nf: You need to have multiversion feature for kernel packages enabled, i.e. Installing with YaST or Zypper requires root privileges. Installing the official NVIDIA drivers using ZYpp (YaST or Zypper) is desired.įor information regarding NVIDIA's official linux. For more information about the Open GPU kernel modules, that NVIDIA released in May 2022, read this openSUSE Blog article. The following article is about installing NVIDIA's Proprietary drivers.

Open GPU kernel modules versus Proprietary drivers

Warning: If you plan to replace your card with a more recent one, it's recommended that you uninstall the NVidia DDX driver (reverting back to modesetting DDX driver (newer default) or nouveau DDX driver (older optional)) before upgrading your hardware.

Nvidia automatic driver detection tool