I can install it and it works, but when I restart my computer is doesn't how do I make it work

suse 10 with the stock kernel

here is what I do:
1)download 7174 nvidia driver .run
2)./Nvidia-7174(something).run
3)compiles the driver
4)sax2 -m 0=nvidia
5)everything works fine
6)init 5 (everything works fine)
7)When I restart my computer the driver isn't there anymore.
8)I have to run ./Nvidia-7174...run --uninstall then reinstall it again to make it work

when I type modprobe nvidia I see nothing and in slackware and fedora I saw a message.

I have the same problem, but I think that the solution is somewhere in this forum. The nvidia module does compile and it is still there on your computer (and mine) but we just don't have 3d acceleration. Type lsmod | grep nvidia to see if you do have the kernel module working. But I can't help you with the 3d acceleration, I was trying to figure it out weeks ago but I gave up hoping that it will be easier on 10.1 OSS.

thanks I thought I was the only person that had this problem
think I'll just wait to 10.1 or buy a better video card, cause this tnt2 is old

Perhaps there's something I'm missing here. I have the retail version of SuSE 10.0 and just built my first 64 bit computer. In the past I'd used the on board video but this new motherboard's video was missing features required by tvtime. I bought an FX 5200 based card. I got the driver with SuSE watcher and YOU. An Nvidia driver is an optional update. It loaded and I ran SAX2. It works great, 3d enabled, and I got driver 7676.

You can also add the repository "super" into yast and install the Super Nvidia installer. I did also get the new 8787-think thats the number to work on SUSe 10.0 have you tried this latest driver?

I'm an Nvidia newbie. Reading all the forum posts on installing the driver, I wasn't going to push my luck when what I tried had worked just fine. I assumed the drive from SuSE would be fairly recent.

the main reason why I have to use 7174 is that was the last driver to support the tnt2 this driver runs perfect in fedora and slackware I don't know why is never comes back, right now I'm using the nv driver cause I'm sick of reinstalling it

Now I understand why you're not using the default driver. Technology improves and changes so fast in the PC industry that eventual disappearance of backward compatibility. I'm not trying to make an excuse but sometimes these things are beyond the control of a vendor like Nvidia. As well a function developers are subject to the discontinuance of chips even if only because the operating voltage changes. 5V was common, 3.3V came along and then there was 1.8V. I've seen chips live on but only at a lower voltage. This has occurred in telecom in less than a year of chip life. At lest the price performance of new components continues to improve.