How to install the Nvidia drivers on openSUSE Tumbleweed - The Easy way and the Hard way

In this video I explain in details the 2 ways of installing the Nvidia drivers on openSUSE TW.
Take in consideration the date of recording and the version of the software used: all this tutorial might become unrelevant in the coming years (I will create a new one no worries).
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Keywords: #LinuxGaming, #A1RM4X, #opensuse , #nvidia
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
05:00 The easy way
10:17 The easy way via GUI
11:14 The hard way
16:53 Why I prefer the hard way
18:23 Extra: Loading the modules faster via Dracut
19:56 Conclusion

[@A1RM4X]

As mentioned in the comments: for the hard way, you can install libglvnd and pkgconf-pkg-config for satisfying the Nvidia .run installer before running it. The full command: sudo zypper in pkgconf-pkg-config libglvnd libglvnd-32bit libglvnd-devel Enjoy! PS: thanks to @daviusikse1486 for the update.

[@ccrial]

One of the best informative linux guide. That's because you can apply this method to all distributions based on systemd.

[@Tuxm.]

The consistent uploads 🎉🎉

[@SirVisigoth]

GReat Tutorial again, managed this on opensuse without a hitch, running Nvidia 551 driver, Thanks very much

[@mitchelbone6301]

Thank you. That helped me immensely.

[@user-ko6qf9qc3f]

Superbe travail pour cette distribution, merci à toi.

[@MartinKuhlen]

Thanks a lot mate! It worked. I used the first method that you showed. Subscribed!

[@A1RM4X]

Bienvenu Martin! Happy it worked.

[@pitape1822]

Excellent video A1rm@x! I am on Tumbleweed Slowroll. I have secure boot disabled in UEFI. I also disable secure boot in Yast boot utility. I then install nvidia drivers with Yast software and reboot. No problem, excellent performance in games but 15 percent less than Windows of course. Actually better fps than on Nobara in Cyberpunk.

[@eden2980]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU SAVED MY SETUP

[@mateus1230-b1j]

Nice tutorial 👍🏻

[@A1RM4X]

Thanks 🙂

[@jduvel]

Thanks for this - could not get nvidia x-server installed until seeing your vid!

[@A1RM4X]

Enjoy!

[@SM-qo9gr]

My man. Thank you so much. Now i can rice my Tumbleweed in 240 Hz

[@A1RM4X]

Glad I could help!

[@pomiusu]

tysm!

[@_photonux_345]

Thanks for the info! This was very helpful. In this case I installed the NVIDIA 550.40.07 (beta) driver. There are still some issues with glitching in wayland. I assume it will be resolved. I have the RTX 3060 laptop version by the way. I switched from Fedora 39 to Opensuse Tumbleweed a few days ago. Liking it so far 🙂

[@tmendoza6]

oh yeah worked great

[@daviusikse1486]

In my opinion, you will have to show the easy easy way full GUI (adding the repo with yast, using the repository tab, clicing to nvidia repo and click the good things). pkg-config and libglvnd are dependancies needed for naming the card and some other things. You NEED to install them BEFORE using the run. the nvidia-xconfig configuration saying YES can reduce to a BLACK SCREEN AFET REBOOT (Cardiac case on laptop)

[@A1RM4X]

Good catch! I just added a pinned comment. Thanks for double checking everything bro. Appreciate it!

[@p7272]

Speaking of laptop... Yeah, I;m having an issue with my HP ZBook 17 G4 with nvidia. The external monitor is not working on this one laptop. My G2 and G6 work fine with nvidia and external monitor. Let me boot up the G4 and follow along.

[@p7272]

Does this process work for laptops with 2 cards? 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics P630 (rev 04) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP104GLM [Quadro P4000 Mobile] (rev a1) My external monitor works now, but the laptop screen is not working.

[@F0XH0UND007]

Have you ever tried regataos? It's based off opensuse but i am wondering what would be better for gaming regata or just a official install of tumbleweed

[@panosgr1559]

I did the yast way, drivers are installed but it says my primary Graphics Card is Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics. How do I change it to nvidia? Please help!

[@Zillawill]

Been awhile since I watched your channel, lately I've been thinking of ditching my 4090 to go too AMD, 2 biggest reasons I don't use Linux as my daily driver anymore is still lack of DLSS FG and HDR support, both of which are seemingly not going to be a issue on AMD since FSR3 should work without issue on linux and then Steam Decks newest update shipped HDR support in it

[@A1RM4X]

If I were you I would keep my 4090, it would be the worst time to ditch it... Nvidia drivers are missing functionalities right now and their next branch version (545.XXX) will solve the issue related to Wayland (so HDR is not far). For DLSS 3 (DLSS FG), they will implement it in their linux drivers, one day or another, I would not sweat it either... Worst case scenario you would be using FSR3 while waiting. On top of that, I have seen benchmark of 7900 XTX on Linux. Yes, they work out of the box, but the performance are really really far from a 4090. They make sense if you are looking for the best price / performance ratio, otherwise (you already own a 4090,) they just don´t...

[@20Sevehn]

How do you update the drivers?

[@bean420man]

I installed the drivers and everything seemed to be ok but the inactive areas of my screen are blurred. Whenever I move my mouse to those areas, they become clear but when I move the mouse, they become blurry again. Help?

[@michaking3734]

there is no file that i can bouble click and it installs the driver for me ?

[@markheseltine8360]

Excellent explanation. However, the 'hard' way does not appear to work for Leap 15.5. (1) you need to add "nomodeset" to the boot script. And (2) the downloaded driver is not accepted as 'signed' so it is not excepted. I can't figure how out to have it 'signed'.

[@markheseltine8360]

and running "sudo zypper in pkgconf-pkg-config libglvnd libglvnd-32bit libglvnd-devel" before installation ended with errors.

[@josephblessingh2384]

I did in both the hard way and easy way but the installation didn't work!! Edit: I uninstalled all the previous installation of nvidia and tried using the hard way. It seems that it has installed after typing in lsmod | grep nvidia. Also, I can see something different in Nvidia X settings. But Alas, my fastfetch still shows Intel GPU and not Nvidia. I tried selecting nvidia using sudo prime-select nvidia but still there is no change!!!!

[@ztdep]

there are no "repo of NVIDIA" , why

[@DorkBr]

Easy, only took me almost 15 minutes.

[@VJ-zm5xi]

I don't know, it just doesn't work for me, maybe it's because I'm on a Lenovo laptop. I mean yeah, tried the first and second methods shown in the video even before watching the video (read official manual). Maybe to stupid to use this distro yet. P.S.: actually the issue I have is switching between nouveau opensource driver and proprietary nvidia driver. That's what seems complicated now. P.P.S.: sddm doesn’t start after NVIDIA proprietary drivers are installed. At least installation itself was successful, it seems. I followed your instructions with one exception- disabled sddm before installing the driver. Maybe that was the crucial mistake.

[@prklp69]

it made mine look worse...?

[@Demrish]

thats the hard way ??

[@VanAugur]

lost my sound after installing nvidia drivers