I have a fresh install of opensuse 10.3 and added the sources to yast. I did not know which source to pick for the nvidia driver as there were several to choose from. The nvidia card is the geforce 5200. I am using the stock kernel, no updates were done yet.

"5200" : That will be 173.x or 169.x .

I am running 2 7300 series cards in SLi mode on Opensuse 10.3. (I tried 11 and 11.1 but liked the 10.3 performance better). The standard Opensuse repos did not do the trick when I ran KDE 4 with all the gizmos. (The cube would freeze and I would have to restart x) I tried for several days to tweak the install, but I finally downloaded the latest driver from Nvidia and installed it. I did not alter the x config file, since it was working. I realize that kernel updates will cause me to re-compile the driver, but the box runs as it should now.

In order to install nvidia drivers from their site, you must be in ther console and out of x. Also, you must install the devel stuff, along with the kernel sources so that you can compile the driver. I used Mandriva for many years, so I am used to all of that.

I tried the nvidia one click install and it worked. The link is: http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA#openSUSE_ ... nSUSE_11.0 . It runs yast via the link. After the install, it seemed to hang, so I did ctrl-alt-backspace and it booted fine the second time and had no problems since then. That feature is available with 10.3 and 11.0. Since my card was not in the legacy list, I picked the current driver install.