nVidia driver on SUSE 10.1

I'm using the latest kernel, 2.6.16.13-4 and have an AMD64 x2 board. The graphics card is a GF 7600 GT, and whenever I run the X11 on the smp kernel the nvidia driver dies and leaves a white, non usable window. The driver runs well with the non-smp kernel version. Has anyone run into this problem? any solutions?