NVIDIA 304.88 Easy way installation results in no boot= hang boot

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Hi,
I have currently installed OpenSuse 12.3 64bit installed. Now i am using nouveau driver with my old Geforce 6600 PCIE. When i try to install proprietary driver easy way through YaST - enabling X11-video-nvidiaG02 it installs ok but after reboot it hangs before login screen. All i can do is hard reset. When i uninstall this driver and revert back to nouveau it works ok. Where is the problem,

PS: when i install nVidia 304.88 drivers from nVidia site hard way, it installs ok and also system works ok. But i want and i prefer easy way because of future kernel updates etc.

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Make sure that YaST selects the correct kernel module package for your kernel, it can happen under certain circumstances that it chooses the wrong one. Maybe select it manually if necessary.
You need nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop if you’re using kernel-desktop, or nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-default for kernel-default.

And uninstall the driver before you install the rpms again. (“nvidia-installer --uninstall”)

Another thing:
Have you already installed all online updates?
On a fresh 12.3 the nvidia driver does not work correctly unless you add your user to the “video” group:
https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/i386/openSUSE/12.3/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html#idm1265054156
This shouldn’t be necessary anymore if you have installed all online updates though…

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Hi, wolfi323 you are a master, that actually did the trick. i have used kmp-desktop instead of kmp-default and it WORKS !
BIG THANK YOU.