I have a new computer with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 card. Although Tumbleweed automatically enabled the NVidia repository, zypper inr didn’t recommend any NVidia drivers (only lots of games and PIM apps I don’t want). So, with my limited hardware knowledge, I installed the drivers manually. All seems to be fine now, no warnings or errors from the kernel, but I’m not sure if I did the right thing when I also installed kernel-firmware-nvidia-gsp-G06 by hand. The version of this package as shown by zypper doesn’t match the driver version. And there’s also kernel-firmware-nvidia (installed, but not by me), kernel-firmware-nvidia-gspx-G06, and kernel-firmware-nvidia-gspx-G06-cuda. Should I remove the gsp version and install the gspx one instead? Do I also (or only) need the cuda one? (I’ve done some limited testing with CuPy and CUDA seems to work. I’m using the CUDA software from the NVidia website.)
AFAIK your RTX 5060 does not need any of those -firmware files, but they do no harm either. I would leave things as they are, but if you want to remove anything take note and if something goes wrong you can reinstall the missing package.
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