My desktop has multi displays & I need the Nvidia driver; last evening I did an online update and it booted to a frozen screen that I could not seem to repair.
I decided to install the proprietary Nvidia driver untill the repo driver is fixed.
Here’s how I installed the proprietary Nvidia driver the hard way:
(I got my driver from http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/112992/en-us
your’s may be different – check http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
1st get rid of the repo driver
reboot > type “e” at the splash
add “3” at the end of the linux line > F10 to boot
log in as root
“startx” use Yast and uninstall all (4) Nvidia rpm’s – Yast will then use the nouveau driver
back in yast, delete the Nvidia repo
2nd:
reboot > type “e” at the splash
add “3” at the end of the linux line > F10 to boot
Now we have to blacklist the Nouveau driver or the Prop Nvidia driver won’t load
log in as root and do:
echo “blacklist nouveau” >> /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf && mkinitrd && reboot
wait until it reboots.
3rd:
reboot > type “e” at the splash
add “3” at the end of the linux line > F10 to boot
log in as root
change directories to where you downloaded the prop Nvidia driver; in my case
cd /home/user/Downloads
I type “dir” to see the contents of the dir and the spelling of the driver I am going to use
now do
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-375.26.run -aq – where the a and q is to accept license and answer yes to questions. ( Make sure your command is the driver that you downloaded.)
wait until it finishes
It told me that I may have to update xF86 config: see /usr/share/doc/Nvidia_glx-1.0/readme.txt
reboot
success – right back to my multi-display setup – and I did not have to do anything with xF86 config
Have fun