NVIDIA driver showing but not actually working

[rznr]

Hello!

I have just installed openSUSE Tumbleweed, which is my first Linux install ever. I had to wrestle with it a little bit (upon install there was a black screen, I fixed with the “nomodeset” fix, which may have caused my problem).
After install, when I ran inxi -G, it showed my graphics card but said driver was N/A. I installed the Tumbleweed NVIDIA drivers repository (I forgot the command I used, sorry) and then restarted my machine without the “nomodeset”, which did make the driver appear as “nvidia” in inxi -G.
The trouble is, visually, nothing has changed! Everything is a little fuzzy and slightly stretched vertically as if the graphics driver is not actually working!

Any guidance for this noob is appreciated! Thank you!

[hui]

Please show the output of following comands:

zypper se -si nvidia
inxi -GSaz

[rznr]

first command:

S  | Name                             | Type    | Version                   | Arch   | Repository
---+----------------------------------+---------+---------------------------+--------+--------------
i  | kernel-firmware-nvidia           | package | 20251018-1.1              | noarch | repo-oss
i  | libnvidia-egl-gbm1               | package | 1.1.2-7.17                | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i  | libnvidia-egl-gbm1-32bit         | package | 1.1.2-7.12                | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i  | libnvidia-egl-wayland1           | package | 1.1.20-52.3               | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i  | libnvidia-egl-wayland1-32bit     | package | 1.1.20-52.3               | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i  | libnvidia-egl-x111               | package | 1.0.3-21.5                | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i  | libnvidia-egl-x111-32bit         | package | 1.0.3-21.4                | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i  | libnvidia-gpucomp                | package | 580.119.02-43.1           | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i  | libnvidia-gpucomp-32bit          | package | 580.119.02-43.1           | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i  | nvidia-common-G06                | package | 580.119.02-43.1           | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i  | nvidia-compute-G06               | package | 580.119.02-43.1           | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i  | nvidia-compute-utils-G06         | package | 580.119.02-43.1           | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i+ | nvidia-driver-G06-kmp-default    | package | 580.119.02_k6.18.0_1-43.1 | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i  | nvidia-gl-G06                    | package | 580.119.02-43.1           | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i  | nvidia-gl-G06-32bit              | package | 580.119.02-43.1           | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i  | nvidia-modprobe                  | package | 580.119.02-21.1           | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i  | nvidia-persistenced              | package | 580.119.02-2.1            | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i  | nvidia-userspace-meta-G06        | package | 580.119.02-26.1           | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i  | nvidia-video-G06                 | package | 580.119.02-43.1           | x86_64 | repo-non-free
i+ | openSUSE-repos-Tumbleweed-NVIDIA | package | 20250728.9adc675-1.1      | x86_64 | repo-oss

second command:

System:
  Kernel: 6.18.0-2-default arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt1)/opensuse-tumbleweed/6.18.0-2-default/linux-d05f1705ea5c8056f146fad79c6de7036d60f144
    splash=silent nomodeset mitigations=auto quiet security=selinux selinux=1
    rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau
    root=UUID=9a1374af-68ee-4f07-a1f7-e63acc94e3db
    rootflags=subvol=@/.snapshots/1/snapshot
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.5.4 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.20.0
    wm: kwin_x11 tools: avail: xscreensaver vt: 2 dm: SDDM Distro: openSUSE
    Tumbleweed 20251211
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics] vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A
    alternate: i915, xe arch: Xe process: Intel 7 (10nm) built: 2022+
    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:a7a0 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA AD104M [GeForce RTX 4080 Max-Q / Mobile] vendor: Lenovo
    driver: nvidia v: 580.119.02 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm
    non-free: 550-580.xx+ status: current (as of 2025-11) arch: Lovelace
    code: AD1xx process: TSMC n4 (5nm) built: 2022+ pcie: gen: 4
    speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: lanes: 16 ports: active: none
    empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:27a0
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-3: Luxvisions Innotech Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-8:3 chip-ID: 30c9:00ad
    class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.21 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.8
    compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: vesa
    alternate: fbdev,intel,nouveau,nv gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
    s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: Unknown-1 mapped: None-1 res: mode: 1920x1080 hz: 60
    scale: 100% (1) size: N/A modes: 1920x1080
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2
    drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: swrast
    inactive: wayland,device-1
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 25.3.1 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.6 256 bits)
    device-ID: ffffffff:ffffffff memory: 60.98 GiB unified: yes
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.335 layers: 3 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: NVIDIA
    GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU driver: nvidia v: 580.119.02
    device-ID: 10de:27a0 surfaces: N/A device: 1 type: cpu name: llvmpipe
    (LLVM 21.1.6 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 25.3.1 (LLVM 21.1.6)
    device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: N/A
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-smi wl: wayland-info
    x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr

Edit by Sauerland:
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[Sauerland]

Please use Code-Tags.
Also copy / paste the whole output incl. the complete first commandline

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[hui]

You still have nomodeset in the kernel command line. You can simply remove it via

sudo update-bootloader --del-option nomodeset
sudo update-bootloader --config

[rznr]

Wonderful, everything looks normal now, thank you so much!!!