-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-11-18 19:27, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R. <> [11-18-14 13:11]:
I run nvidia binary drivers on most of my boxes and have not experienced downtime there.
which you probably install "the hard way", ie, not via the provided rpms, which in fact, are not provided except for stable releases.
But my experience doesn't reflect "change" in the nvidia binaries and I failed (still fail) to see any recommendataion not to use the binaries except from Greg KH and that was pertaining to unclean kernels *only*. Understandable with his relation to kernel development.
No, the issue is that you can not click on an rpm and install the driver, point and shoot. You have to do a manual installation, and must be prepared to repeat when the kernel updates. That's the meaning of his warning as I remember. You can install the rpms for 13.2 now, and probably they work. But as TW departs and gets a newer kernel, sooner or later it's bound to break the proprietary driver via rpm. Via bundle (whatever.run) it may still build, at least till the kernel does one of those changes that breaks the driver, that needs the nvidia devs to readapt, a task that takes them some time (months?), so much so that people often have time to publish patches. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlRrqHIACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VN3wCdHybjNxAEvL50F2yWXrft4ooV XEAAnR8BWtq7LVf/LZfCmSP1zkmSKBZM =DriO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org