Hello, today i installed opensuse 12.3 in my laptop a samsung R430, T6600 2.2 mhz, 8 gb ram dual and nvidia geforce 310M 512mb, all works fine but now i need install the privative drivers to run steam games but i have a doubt wich one is the right driver for my card from here SDB:NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE (current card, recent card, FX cards of legacy card).
which should I choose?
Thanks a lot.
PS: sorry my english, is not my language.
Lets just make sure it’s not hybrid graphics
Please post the result of
/sbin/lspci -nnk
Thanks for the reply, here is the output:
sparx@linux-4b94:~> /sbin/lspci -nnk00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device [144d:c552]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port [8086:2a41] (rev 07)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device [144d:c552]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2938] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device [144d:c552]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:2939] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device [144d:c552]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:293c] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device [144d:c552]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device [144d:c552]
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2940] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:2946] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2934] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device [144d:c552]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2935] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device [144d:c552]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2936] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device [144d:c552]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:293a] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device [144d:c552]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller [8086:2919] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device [144d:c552]
Kernel driver in use: lpc_ich
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801IBM/IEM (ICH9M/ICH9M-E) 4 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [8086:2929] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device [144d:c552]
Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:2930] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device [144d:c552]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 310M] [10de:0a75] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device [144d:c552]
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller [10de:0be3] (rev a1)
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device [144d:c552]
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002b] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Device [144f:7167]
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
04:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller [11ab:4354]
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device [144d:c552]
Kernel driver in use: sky2
sparx@linux-4b94:~>
Thanks
That doesn’t seem to be a hybrid system (I hope I haven’t overlooked anything 
).
For your card the latest G03 driver should work. I would recommend to install the packages manually though, since the 1-click install may install the wrong kernel module under certain circumstances, although it should work fine on a fresh install.
First check, which kernel you are using by running “uname -a” in a Konsole. It should say something like this:
Linux xxx 3.7.10-1.16-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri May 31 20:21:23 UTC 2013 (97c14ba) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
In my case it’s kernel-desktop, if yours is different you have to replace kernel-desktop accordingly in the following command line.
To install the driver, run this:
sudo zypper ar -f ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/12.3/ nvidia
sudo zypper in x11-video-nvidiaG03 nvidia-gfxG03-kmp-desktop nvidia-computeG03
Be sure that you have installed all available online updates, if that’s not the case your user has to be member of the “video” group for the nvidia driver to work correctly:
https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/openSUSE/12.3/#idm47462154153376
Thanks very much wolfi323, installed the G03 now.