Cause I'm at the 'nothing left to lose' stage of not knowing what to do next to actually help the kernel maintainers diagnose this, I added https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Kernel:HEAD/kernel-default as a repo and installed 6.2.0 ... having generally positive results: $ uptime && uname -r 19:24:08 up 1:55, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 6.2.0-rc1-1.g769d7ad-default Tomorrow I'll see how the latest .run from NVIDIA works and if the 6.1.0+ series just has some upstream oddity that isn't playing nice w/ my machines.