(I assume you are running the desktop kernel, which is most probable if you did a standard install if you use a different kernel please exchange the “desktop” with your kernel flavor in the 2nd line)Īfter a reboot you then should really be using the nvidia driver. Sudo zypper in nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-desktop x11-video-nvidiaG02 nvidia-computeG02 Since you said you find YaST unintuitive, please type the following in a terminal window: sudo zypper rm nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-default nvidia-gfx-kmp-default x11-video-nvidia No wonder you found the nouveau driver better! rotfl! So you haven’t been using the nvidia driver at all. It seems something went wrong with your driver installation! This is the oldest legacy driver still usable on openSUSE and is for GeForce4 cards about 10 years old… (it does not support your Quadro NVS 285 card) Xf86-video-nv (NVIDIA video driver for the Xorg X)ĭo I get rid of all the ones that Yast2 marks as ‘NVIDIA’?

X11-video-nvidia (NVIDIA graphics driver for GeForce4 GPUs) Nvidia-gfx-kmp-default (NVIDIA graphics driver kernel module) Libdrm_nouveau2 (Userspace interface for Kernel DRM) Nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-default (NVIDIA graphics driver kernel module) When I type nvidia in Yast2 I get the following as installed (I don’t find yast intuitive):

Graphics card driver remover