SuSE 11.2 64 Bit Installer Fails Hardware Detection part 1

I had downloaded the latest opensuse installer for 64 bit binaries, and the screen would flicker on and off so much and randomly that I gave up at that point. I came across some forum posts that had black screen in their title, but they did not cover my scenario. An idea might be to install the Nvidia drivers during installation although the install seemed to give the option to use the vesa driver. Still I had the same very annoying screen flicker.  I don't know when I will write a solution. Hopefully by the next opensuse release.