Hi. I'm searched for help all over google and have seen nothing but posts with people experiencing the same frustration as myself at installing this driver.

Ok here's the problem.

I downloaded the package: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run
I installed gcc, make and downloaded the kernel-source rpm and installed that.
I booted into failsafe "init 3"
I logged in as "root"
I cd /home/yewneek/Desktop
I sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run
I ran through the nvidia installation

And everything was fine, until I had to sax2 -m 0=nvidia.

sax2 starts initalising and then it says "sax2 starting" but it doesn't. It reboots my PC.

So I log back into KDE 3.1 and I get the following error (this is the full report):

(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...[New Thread 16384 (LWP 2526)]
(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...0x411dea86 in waitpid ()
from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
#0 0x411dea86 in waitpid () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
#1 0x406c0a10 in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler(int) ()
from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#2 0x411dd96c in __pthread_sighandler () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
#3 <signal handler called>
#4 0x40f514ff in glXChannelRectSyncSGIX () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
#5 0x08066120 in ?? ()
#6 0x40f868e0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
#7 0x08066120 in ?? ()
#8 0x40f4fd56 in glXChannelRectSyncSGIX () from /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
#9 0x08066120 in ?? ()
#10 0x08066120 in ?? ()
#11 0x411afa88 in __JCR_LIST__ () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
#12 0x0806bca0 in ?? ()
#13 0x410c99ea in XCloseDisplay () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
#14 0x409e58f2 in qt_cleanup() () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#15 0x40a5253c in QApplication::~QApplication() ()
from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#16 0x40653943 in KApplication::~KApplication() ()
from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#17 0x40020779 in main () from /opt/kde3/lib/kcminit.so
#18 0x0804d8f3 in launch(int, char const*, char const*, char const*, int, char const*, bool, char const*, bool, char const*) ()
#19 0x0804fa82 in main ()

***End Of Report***

This occurs twice when KDE 3.1 is loading and then continues after it is loaded and I am opening programs such as konquerer and xmms. My computer is also running extremely slow and sluggish.

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My computer info is: Advent 3319

Intel Pentium 4, 3.4ghz (FSB800)
512MB DDR Ram
Geforce 5600XT 256MB

Running kernel 2.4.21-286-smp4G
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That's it. I'm a complete newbie, so all my resources are exhausted, any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'm not so familiar with Suse but I'll have a go.

You might editing /ect/X11/xorg.conf manually instead of using one Suse's graphical tools. Open up a terminal, su to root then open the file on Kedit or whatever. Scroll down to the section "Display" and look for a line that says driver=<something>. Change the something to "nvidia" and save the file.

Of course if you open the file and find that it's already set to nvidia then that wont help. If that fails, you could try installing an older version of the driver, that often works.

Hope that helps.