Guidance with TW Nvidia driver 580-150-03

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Now that the Nvidia Driver saga appears to have been resolved, I have installed Tumbleweed on an old computer. The install went fine and the details are:

Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20260529
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.26.0
Qt Version: 6.11.1
Kernel Version: 7.0.10-2-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.6 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: llvmpipe
Manufacturer: Acer
Product Name: Aspire TC-780

It has an old Nvidia graphic card - GTX 1050 - and I don’t know whether it is too old or not to install a Nvidia driver. I have had a go with the driver GO6 580-159-03 but have not been successful and the graphics is sowing as ‘llvmpipe’.

I show below the results from ‘zypper se -si nvidia’:

i  | libnvidia-egl-gbm1                        | package | 1.1.3-11.2               | x86_64 | nvidia
i  | libnvidia-egl-wayland1                    | package | 1.1.22-57.4              | x86_64 | nvidia
i  | libnvidia-egl-x111                        | package | 1.0.5-26.2               | x86_64 | nvidia
i  | libnvidia-gpucomp-G06                     | package | 580.159.03-56.1          | x86_64 | nvidia
i  | nvidia-common-G06                         | package | 580.159.03-56.1          | x86_64 | nvidia
i  | nvidia-compute-G06                        | package | 580.159.03-56.1          | x86_64 | nvidia
i  | nvidia-compute-utils-G06                  | package | 580.159.03-56.1          | x86_64 | nvidia
i  | nvidia-gl-G06                             | package | 580.159.03-56.1          | x86_64 | nvidia
i+ | nvidia-libXNVCtrl                         | package | 580.159.03-56.4          | x86_64 | nvidia
i  | nvidia-modprobe                           | package | 580.159.03-26.2          | x86_64 | nvidia
i+ | nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-kmp-default | package | 580.159.03_k7.0.10_2-3.1 | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
i+ | nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-kmp-meta    | package | 580.159.03-52.1          | x86_64 | nvidia
i  | nvidia-persistenced                       | package | 580.159.03-2.2           | x86_64 | nvidia
i+ | nvidia-settings                           | package | 580.159.03-56.4          | x86_64 | nvidia
i  | nvidia-userspace-meta-G06                 | package | 580.159.03-52.1          | x86_64 | nvidia
i  | nvidia-video-G06                          | package | 580.159.03-56.1          | x86_64 | nvidia

I can’t see an obvious error - any guidance as to were I am going wrong would be very appreciated.

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Just to add I was trying to install the nvidia open driver.

Thanks

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Your card does not support the open driver. You need to install the closed source kmp package. Use the met a package.

sudo zypper in nvidia-driver-G06-kmp-meta

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Isn’t the GXT1050 a Pascal card that need the closed driver ?
If so you need to install nvidia-driver-G06-kmp-meta

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Thanks very much. That worked perfectly.