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First of all, if you don't want to install the driver manually, search the openSUSE repositories for it, perhaps it is available by now, as of writing this (2010-07-18) it wasn't.

If you decide to do it manually, here is how it worked for me:

• Download driver from http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index5.aspx. The downloaded file is named something like NVIDIA-Linux-x86-256.35.run. I will refer to it as NVIDIA.run later.
• Yast - System - /etc/sysconfig Editor, System - Kernel - set NO_KMS_IN_INITRD to yes
• Boot into runlevel 3 (e.g. YaST - System - System Services (Runlevel): Expert Mode, set default runlevel after booting to: 3: Full multiuser with network and reboot)
• After reboot login as root
• zypper install gcc make kernel-source
• sh path/to/NVIDIA.run
• modprobe nvidia
• rcxdm start
• switch back default runlevel to 5 if you want the GUI to start automatically

Two SUSE sources were especially helful with this:
http://wiki.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_graphics_cards#openSUSE_11.3
http://wiki.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers

First of all, if you don\'t want to install the driver manually, search the openSUSE repositories for it, perhaps it is available by now, as of writing this (2010-07-18) it wasn\'t. If you decide to do it manually, here is how it worked for me: Download driver from http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index5.aspx. The downloaded file is named something like ...