Comment # 1 on bug 1141494 from Stefan Dirsch

Thanks for your bug report!

Nouveau is an experimental driver under constant heavy development. This means
that we cannot follow it closely, as we are not part of its team with  reverse
engineered knowledge of NVIDIA cards.

In case you wish to stick with nouveau and to help us improve its support in
openSUSE, you can try our latest kernel, Mesa, and xf86-video-nouveau packages:

  http://kernel.opensuse.org/
  https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:XOrg/Mesa
  https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:XOrg/xf86-video-nouveau

Testing the latest versions is a prerequisite in order to inform nouveau's
upstream developers of any bugs you find:

  https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs/

Once you are aware of an upstream fix for your issue, please reopen the bug and
 let us know. We will be happy to include it in your openSUSE distribution if
it's technically feasible.

Alternatively, you can install NVIDIA's proprietary driver instead:

  https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA