On 17/05/12 20:15, Anders Johansson wrote:
Because I have this repo enabled and when I do "zypper up" and a new version of the kernel is installed, the nvidia driver from this repo does nothing - it isn't even updated during the same "zypper up" process - and I have to install the driver from the nVidia site.
To avoid all this crap, I simply just install the nVidia driver using "sh NVIDIA*". Saves a lot of angst. We had this discussion a while back, Basil. Why do you keep saying it? The whole point of kmp packages is that they don't have to be updated whenever
On Thursday 17 May 2012 20:00:18 Basil Chupin wrote: there is a kernel update. The kernel maintains a stable binary interface, so the old driver will just keep working without having to be rebuilt. It gets linked over to the new kernel automatically so you as a user have to do exactly nothing to keep things running
Anders
This response is also @ Marcus. Why do I "keep saying it"? Because a few days ago the kernel I am using was upgraded from 3.3.5 to 3.3.6 and I am also using the nvidia 295.49 driver. After the reboot I was left at the login prompt (level #3) which meant that I had to recompile the driver. If the nvidia repo kept up with events then this step would (probably) be unnecessary. But until then, recompiling the driver is the only course of action available to get a graphical desktop :-) . BC -- Using openSUSE 12.1 x86_64 KDE on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org