Where to get Nvidia drivers for Slowroll?

[espinosa_cz]

The official openSuse documentation SDB:NVIDIA drivers - openSUSE Wiki mentions only Tumbleweed and Leap. Not a single mention of Slowroll.
I have no desire to do it “the hard way”.
I definitively looking for the simplest way.

Should I try add Tumbleweed Nvidia repo?

zypper addrepo --refresh Index of /opensuse/tumbleweed NVIDIA

Or the latest Leap?

zypper addrepo --refresh ‘Index of /opensuse/leap/15.6’ NVIDIA

Or it doesn’t matter?
Those are DKMS drivers/kernel modules, aren’t they? They should adapt to any recent kernel.

It would be nice to have an official acknowledgement on the official openSuse pages.

I also tried to search Nvidia and Slowroll on https://software.opensuse.org, full search link:
Search.
That found odd things, like “nvidia-open-driver-G06-signed”. What the “signed” in the name means there?

[espinosa_cz]

Just fixing the commands. I noticed too late that the forums system is trying to be very smart and messed the URL in the commands.

Should I try add the Tumbleweed Nvidia repo?

# zypper addrepo --refresh https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/tumbleweed NVIDIA

Or the latest Leap?

# zypper addrepo --refresh 'https://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/leap/15.6' NVIDIA

[hui]

Simply install following package which will automatically add the Nvidia repo for Slowroll…
sudo zypper in openSUSE-repos-Slowroll-NVIDIA
(It is the same as for Tumbleweed)

[espinosa_cz]

I managed to find it on my own yesterday night.
Though it was not simple process.

I noticed the package “”

openSUSE-repos-Slowroll-NVIDIA - openSUSE NVIDIA repository definitions
Definitions for NVIDIA repository management via zypp-services

When I installed it, but then, anticlimactically, nothing happened.
Package was installed but nvidia driver packages were still missing. You can see them on the screenshot still in red; I assume they were once installed, leftover from the Thumbleweed days:

Even after repository reloads
No new repository appeared:

.

[malcolmlewis]

@espinosa_cz Hi, it doesn’t matter the repo name, slowroll is actually the Tumblerweed repo anyway.
https://github.com/openSUSE/openSUSE-repos/blob/main/nvidia-slowroll-repoindex.xml

The kernel module (kmp) rpm will rebuild against the kernel you have.

You need to select the versions tab and select the newer driver from there, that’s assuming you have a supported card for that driver…

[espinosa_cz]

I managed to find openSUSE-repos-Slowroll-NVIDIA on my own yesterday night.
This is corrected version of my previous post. I got error while editing my post, and partial version was posted instead and no way how to edit it. Huh.

Installing openSUSE-repos-Slowroll-NVIDIA was not a simple process.

openSUSE-repos-Slowroll-NVIDIA - openSUSE NVIDIA repository definitions
Definitions for NVIDIA repository management via zypp-services

When I installed it, anticlimactically, nothing happened.
Package was installed but nvidia driver packages were still missing. You can see them on the screenshot still in red; I assume they were once installed, leftover from the Tumbleweed days:

Even after repository reloads
No new repository appeared:

I continued my work, cleaned the system packages, there were more leftovers from migration to Slowroll; updating system in general, with that yast and rpm were updated.
And with the “something” finally made Yast/zypp aware of the NVIDIA repositories and with that of driver packages.

By the way, package openSUSE-repos-Slowroll-NVIDIA also installed package openSUSE-repos-Slowroll, which then caused the doubling of all my Slowroll repos. I had to manually clean that up.

And yes, the NVIDIA repo for the Slowroll is the Thumbleweed one.

[espinosa_cz]

Thanks to all responders here! Thank you @malcolmlewis and @hui.

Based on my experience, the advice is:

• Fist, ensure that you have clean installation of Slowroll
  • Ensure you have openSUSE-repos-Slowroll installed
  • your Slowroll repositories were added by openSUSE-repos-Slowroll package, not manually
  • Resolve any broken packages, any potential leftovers from Tumbleweed.
• Install openSUSE-repos-Slowroll-NVIDIA
  • Ensure that new NVIDIA repository was added in Yast repositories
  • You may need restart Yast for it to recognize the additional repo
• Install NVIDIA drivers