Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1165 mails)

[Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 01:01:37PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > No real explanation given. [...]
> > WONTFIX, build it in the BS. WTF!
> 
> That's a perfectly valid reason. You can build it in the build service
> or wait for others to do it. 

BTW, see

  project: home:sndirsch 
  package: tiny-nvidia-installer

Better copy it immediately. I plan to remove it again pretty soon.

> SUSE has no obligation to fulfill your
> wishes unless you have a very convincing reason (and no, it's not you
> who needs to be convinced).

I gave him a bunch of reasons.

1) It's an undocumented way to install the NVIDIA driver. The driver update
   process should be used instead - if possible. Otherwise use the official
   installer. See http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html
   for details.
2) There's no official download location for up-to-date sources for it, so
   sooner or later it gets broken anyway and I won't notice, because I no
   longer use it.
3) IMHO using tiny-nvidia-installer is completely useless. Using it looks
   easy in the first place - given that you have gcc and kernel-source
   installed, but you'll wake up after the first kernel update (Xserver
   is no longer starting!), because you need to recompile the kernel
   module after each update. Since this is a manual step anyway, IMHO
   it's better to know what you're doing and having the complete
   installer already on your harddisk. At least then you don't need to
   download the complete driver again and again. IMHO this is well
   documented in my HOWTO.

     http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html

Probably he cannot be convinced, because he is used to this tool,
relies on it and it somewhat works for him (good enough).

Best regards,
Stefan

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