new nvidia drivers installed , not working

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i’m using 13.1 with a geforce 9500gt and go3 drivers .
when i start Nvidia X server settings i get the message :

You do not appear to be using the NVIDIA X driver.
Please edit your X configuration file (just run nvidia-xconfig as root),
and restart the X server.

so i ran nvidia-xconfig and got to a plain text output after reboot .
i erased xorg.conf to get things to run again .
i did several cold boots with and without xorg.conf , uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers some more
with more rebooting and i still don’t have the nvidia drivers running . its running nouveau right now .

this might help :

jane:~ # rpm -qa | egrep “(kernel|nvidia)”
kernel-desktop-3.11.6-4.1.x86_64
nvidia-glG03-340.58-31.1.x86_64
kernel-default-devel-3.11.10-21.1.x86_64
kernel-devel-3.11.10-21.1.noarch
nvidia-computeG03-340.58-31.1.x86_64
kernel-desktop-devel-3.11.10-21.1.x86_64 x11-video-nvidiaG03-340.58-31.1.x86_64

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You miss some necessary packages, in particular the nvidia kernel module.
And you only have the kernel devel packages for 3.11.10, but are using kernel 3.11.6.

So update your kernel, via YaST->Online Updates, your Desktop’s updater, or “sudo zypper up”/“sudo zypper patch”.
Then enter YaST->Software Management and install nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop and preferably nvidia-uvm-gfxG03-kmp-desktop as well.
Or run:

sudo zypper in nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop nvidia-uvm-gfxG03-kmp-desktop

And you should not have to run nvidia-xconfig, the nvidia driver is used automatically when it is installed and working.

If it still doesn’t work, try to reboot once, that seems to be necessary on some systems.
Or try the G02 driver.

And please post the /var/log/Xorg.0.log for further troubleshooting.

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it works now . thank you so much for the help .