Some questions before a fresh install

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I’m about to do a fresh install of Tumbleweed after some hardware upgrades. It’s been about a year since my last install and most memories of that are pretty fuzzy. I’ve always used nvidia’s .run files to install the drivers for my gpu but I know that the openSUSE nvidia repos will be enabled after the install. I wouldn’t mind the convenience of installing the G06 rpm drivers but I have a few questions:

Do the G06 drivers get installed initially, or do they have to be added after the install finishes?

Is nouveau blacklisted with the install of the rpm’s or do I still need to blacklist it myself?

Is there any other method of blacklisting nouveau besides creating /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf ?

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The drivers should be added automatically after the first zypper dup. If not, make sure the Nvida repo is there and perform a zypper inr.

Nouveau gets blacklisted automatically when installing the rpm. There is no need to do anything manually

No need to manually blacklist nouveau. You only create more issues when you add blacklists at random places…

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Thank you. Is the G06-compute rpm the one that allows me to use the GPU when rendering video?

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Only nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed-kmp-meta and nvidia-userspace-meta-G06 are needed.

https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers

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Thank you!

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As already stated, it is not needed for video rendering, but it might be needed for some video decoding or encoding via the Nvidia GPU depending on your HW and your needs, although that is usually a modest benefit with current systems.
The compute package is needed to use OpenCL or Vulkan, e.g. to speed up computing in LibreOffice Calc, speed up image manipulation in Darktable, speed up rendering in Gnome GTK4 or for CUDA computation in general.

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