OpenSUSE Edition: Tumbleweed
GPU in question: Palit SuperJetStream GTX 1060 6gb (Nvidia).
Spotted: 2 days ago, 14.09.2025
After clean install of OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, which comes with nouveau drivers for Nvidia cards, I decided to follow this guide to install the proprietary driver: SDB:NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE Wiki
First, as per the guide, I did zypper install openSUSE-repos-Tumbleweed-NVIDIA. Oddly enough, it asked me to delete openSUSE-repos-MicroOS-NVIDIA. I tried both replacing and not replacing it, rolling back between options.
Second, I typed zypper install-new-recommends. After the process was over, I’ve rebooted the system. The driver failed to initialize.
inxi -G has shown N/A in the driver field; upon inspection with dmesg, the following error was shown:
[ 56.697148] [ T2989] NVRM: The NVIDIA GPU 0000:27:00.0 (PCI ID: 10de:1c03)
NVRM: installed in this system is not supported by open
NVRM: nvidia.ko because it does not include the required GPU
NVRM: System Processor (GSP).
NVRM: Please see the 'Open Linux Kernel Modules' and 'GSP
NVRM: Firmware' sections in the driver README, available on
NVRM: the Linux graphics driver download page at
NVRM: www.nvidia.com.
[ 56.702043] [ T2989] nvidia 0000:27:00.0: probe with driver nvidia failed with error -1
[ 56.702102] [ T2989] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s).
[ 56.702104] [ T2989] NVRM: None of the NVIDIA devices were initialized.
[ 56.702837] [ T2989] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered Nvlink Core, major device number 238
As such, I assume that install-new-recommends installed the open driver, which is not supported for Pascal (i.e. GTX 10 Series) cards.
Instead, I’ve rolled back and installed nvidia-driver-G06-kmp-meta package manually via YaST. This worked, and driver initialized successfully.
As such, I assume there’s an incorrect option set for Pascal cards in install-new-recommends. Hope for a fix!