I have a Nvidia GPU Geforce GTX 970, and it works fairly ok. I use the machine as a media server, but I also do some office work and web browsing. I am a little disappointed with the scrolling when I scroll trough webpages as Twitter, Nytimes and Facebook. The scrolling is not very smooth as it is on a Windows machine. I had hoped to have a better visual experience. I have the glG05 installed at the moment and wondered if I should upgrade to the glG06 if it’s not that much hassle. How can I do this without doing a fresh install of OpenSuse?
I did the switch via yast software.
Mark all G05 related packages for deinstallation. Install the G06 packages, and reboot. Worked here on my machines.
That didn’t work on my setup. The machine would not boot into the graphical user space after startup. I didn’t reach the login page. It stopped the step before the login. I did a rollback, and it works now with the G5 driver, but the control app for nvidia is gone. Not an important app, but it nice to have it back.
It worked. I have changed to Wayland and it scrolls smoother. It’s not perfect, but it’s much better. Do you have an idea of how to get back the Nvidia setting gui? Or isn’t there one for this driver version? Thanks for help.
I have that package installed, but it’s not in my app menu. I don’t use it that much. It will reappear when I do a new installation of OpenSUSE next year or something. In the meantime I can use the nvidia-smi.
You didn’t tell which desktop environment you are using. But you should be able to create a application menu entry which links to nvidia-settings…you can see the needed file paths in yast software when you mark the nvidia-utils-G06 package and go to “Files”.
There seems to be a problem with the installation of G06. I cannot reboot the machine. It stops after the screen goes dark, and only a blinking underscore “_”. The machine just stays that way. Nothing happens.