Not tried this on Suse, but they recommend this on their site...
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Originally Posted by Suse
3. SUSE LINUX 10.0-IA32
It is recommended to use YOU (YaST Online Update) for (re)installation
of the nvidia driver. There are several reasons for this. First, it's
simple. Second, and this is the most important one, you won't need to
recompile the nvidia kernel module after a kernel update.
Inside YOU enable "Installable and Installed Patches" for "Show Patch
Category" and select "Download NVIDIA(r) Graphics Driver" from the
patches list (usually at the bottom of the list). Note, that you need
to mark it as "Update" (right mouse click) if you already installed it
before and the driver was uninstalled - for any reason. Proceed as
usual now. After YOU has finished restart your Xserver (i.e. logout
from your Xsession) and you're fine.
People who aren't afraid of recompiling the nvidia kernel module or
even reinstalling the nvidia driver each time the kernel has been
updated and want or need to use the latest and greatest nvidia driver
can use the following steps 1-3. The others should use the
instructions above using YOU and skip the steps below.
1) Kernel sources must be installed and configured. Usually this means
installing the 'kernel-source', 'make' and 'gcc' packages with YaST2.
Update it - if not already done - via YaST2 Online Update (YOU).
2) Use the nvidia installer for 1.0-8762.
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8762-pkg1.run -q
3) Configure X.Org with
sax2 -m 0=nvidia (0 is a digit, not a letter!)
NOTE: There is no need to try to enable 3D support. It's already
enabled, when the nvidia driver is running.
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Link:
http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-...ler-HOWTO.html
---------- Post added at 20:35 ---------- Previous post was at 20:25 ----------
Also, it's worth mentioning for anyone thinking of trying Linux, you can use VMWare or Microsoft's Virtual PC to install Linux really easily. It's even better than using a Live CD because a) you don't waste a CD/DVD each time, b) it runs faster and 3) you can make changes and they'll still be there the next time you boot it up.
VMWare even have pre-installed images you can download and use without having to do the installation yourself
