How to pick and lock the nvidia drivers?

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I’m using the longterm kernel. The recommendation is to use the open driver but there’s not an open driver for the longterm kernel.

At https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed/x86_64/

the listing is:

nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-kmp-meta-580.82.07-17.1.noarch.rpm 56KB 2025-10-06 14:28

but

nvidia-driver-G06-kmp-longterm-580.76.05_k6.12.41_1-39.1.x86_64.rpm 80MB 2025-10-06 14:27
nvidia-driver-G06-kmp-longterm-580.82.07_k6.12.44_1-39.1.x86_64.rpm 80MB 2025-10-06 14:27
nvidia-driver-G06-kmp-longterm-580.95.05_k6.12.48_1-40.1.x86_64.rpm 81MB 2025-10-06 14:27
nvidia-driver-G06-kmp-longterm-580.95.05_k6.12.49_1-41.3.x86_64.rpm 80MB 2025-10-06 14:28
  1. Which do version I pick?
  2. How do I lock that version in zypper to keep it in sync with the kernel?

Thanks

2

Those you listed are the proprietary drivers, not the open one.
The open driver you need is in the OSS repo:

S  | Name                                       | Type    | Version                  | Arch   | Repository
---+--------------------------------------------+---------+--------------------------+--------+-----------
   | nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-kmp-longterm | package | 580.95.05_k6.12.50_1-2.1 | x86_64 | repo-oss
3

Excellent!

Now, how do I lock it so it’s always that one?

Thanks

4 
sudo zypper al nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-kmp-longterm
5

So at the same time, I will need to the kernel? and unlock both at the same time after checking that they match?

6

Locking on TW is rarely needed. Simply install the packages and everything should be good. On Leap 15.6 is was/is a different topic. There the locking of the open kernel module was/is necessary as the version lacked due to different reasons often behind the other packages.