Installing NVIDIA 313 drivers

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I’m still getting the lay of the land for openSUSE having come over from Ubuntu. Is there a repo that provides updated NVIDIA drivers beyond the provide 310 series in NVIDIA repo? I wanted to upgrade to the more recent 313 series.

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Your option beyond the standard repo is to install the driver the hard way. It is the way I do it. I also compile my own kernel, up to 3.9.0 right now and I have a bash script that can reinstall the nvidia video driver on each manual compile and update of the kernel version you decide to make. Let me list off several blogs that can help in your quest for the latest nVIDIA video driver.

Installing the nVIDIA Video Driver the Hard Way - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

LNVHW - Load NVIDIA (driver the) Hard Way from runlevel 3 - Version 1.46 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

S.A.K.C. - SUSE Automated Kernel Compiler - Version 2.60 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums (or for all things kernel, look here: openSUSE and Installing New Linux Kernel Versions - Blogs - openSUSE Forums )

S.A.N.D.I. - SuSE Automated NVIDIA Driver Installer - Version 1.00 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums

Here is my present state of affairs (Though I just got KDE 4.10.2 installed today):

http://paste.opensuse.org/view/download/91031349

Thank You,

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Thanks for the post. I figured I’d take your suggestion and try the manual install even though I have never had much success with this method for whatever reson. I removed the repo driver and installed the 313.30 driver. Everything seemed ok. I reboot and it hangs at the boot screen. When I hit escape the last step listed is “reached target graphical interface”. I tried again to install the driver and ran nvidia-xconfig just to see what happens. It generated an XF86Config file and threw an error about generating an xorg.conf file claiming a vendor string error. I have since restored the repo driver so that I have my gui.

I’m running 3.8.9-1-desktop as a kernel from the stable repo. I don’t know if I missed a step in there somewhere or didn’t completely remove the repo driver the first time. I’ll read around and see if anyone else has reported this problem.

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So how did you install the nVIDIA driver? Did you use the LNVHW bash script from run terminal run level 3? Did the nVIDIA driver load OK? Did you add in the kernel load command “nomodeset” in Grub2? Did you set the no KMS in initrd option to Yes from YaST?

Thank You,

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I installed it with the standard driver installer, not the LNVHW script. I put nomodeset in my grub settings. No love.

However, I just tried again, this time on an older laptop with a NVIDIA Geforce 210m. Installed and loaded perfectly. I am going to try again on my main machine. I must have missed a step on the first run. I’ll report my results. Thanks.

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I found the issue. I forgot I added the XORG repo to my laptop with the G210m in it and updated to the xserver to 1.14. Once I added this repo to my desktop and installed the driver, it booted just fine. Thanks for your help.