Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2859 mails)

[Simon Lewis <simon.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How about a restricted modules manager that downloads and installs the
correct driver from the nvidia download site?

Simon

Sloan schrieb:
> Benji Weber wrote:
>   
>> On 5/4/07, Sloan <joe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>     
>>> He's saying (and I agree, since it's obviously the right thing to do)
>>> that it would be nice to have the same choice of drivers as ubuntu,
>>> because these drivers are not a "one size fits all" proposition. For
>>> some cards, only the legacy driver will work, while other, newer cards
>>> will only work with the latest. Suse users are stuck with only the
>>> stable version whether it works or not, otherwise they have to do the
>>> manual download and install, and have to rebuild the driver glue after
>>> every kernel update.
>>>       
>> Ask Nvidia to host the latest version of their drivers if you want.
>> Just because ubuntu are willing to break copyright law, and hope linux
>> developers don't sue them, doesn't mean that Novell/openSUSE can.
>>     
>
> Oh please, isn't a bit silly to play the dmca card here? We're past
> moralizing about whether it's a crime to have proper
> hardware-accelerated OpenGL. Clearly, the nvidia driver is not a
> dervative work of the linux kernel, otherwise how does it run so well on
> windoze, freebsd and solaris?
>
> The real need here is for proper driver support for opensuse users, not
> finger pointing and arguing with video card vendors, and their customers.
>
> Joe
>
>   

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