How to install Nvidia Quadro FX 880M graphic card?

SUSE Product Topics SLED Hardware
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Hi,

Completely new to SUSE but would really like to have it up and running on my Lenovo ThinkPad W510 laptop with a Nvidia Quadro FX 880M graphic card and accelerated driver.
I was under the impression that it was a 1-click affair but…
If I use the repository after registering and install the nvidia-gfx-G02-kmp-default driver etc. I just ends up with a black screen after restart.
If I try to manually install the driver from Nvidia website (install gee, make, kernel-devel, install .run and nvidia-xconfig) I also end up with a black screen.
What gives? Could really use some beginners help here! :confused:

Regards,
Nejmann

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Both the methods of getting the Nvidia driver ought to work and FX 880M is on the list of cards supported by the current driver. If you open the file /usr/share/doc/packages/x11-video-nvidiaG02/html/supportedchips.html

$ firefox /usr/share/doc/packages/x11-video-nvidiaG02/html/supportedchips.html

you can check that it’s on the list for the version of the driver you have installed.

Which version of SLED are you using? If you’re not sure,

$ cat /etc/novell-release

The output of these commands might also be useful

$ rpm -qa | grep -i nvidia $ uname -a $ /sbin/lspci -nnk $ grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
When posting the output of commands look for the # button in the toolbar which you can use to wrap the text in CODE tags. That improves readability.

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Nejmann wrote:[color=blue]

Hi,

Completely new to SUSE but would really like to have it up and running
on my Lenovo ThinkPad W510 laptop with a Nvidia Quadro FX 880M graphic
card and accelerated driver.
I was under the impression that it was a 1-click affair but…
If I use the repository after registering and install the
nvidia-gfx-G02-kmp-default driver etc. I just ends up with a black
screen after restart.
If I try to manually install the driver from Nvidia website (install
gee, make, kernel-devel, install .run and nvidia-xconfig) I also end up
with a black screen.
What gives? Could really use some beginners help here! :confused:

Regards,
Nejmann

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I have a W510 and it works flawlessly with the nvidia driver.

One other thing to check is to make sure the nouveau driver is not also
loaded.

dmesg and xorg.org will tell