Stefan Hundhammer changed bug 963344
What Removed Added
Component Installation X11 3rd Party Driver
Assignee yast2-maintainers@suse.de xorg-maintainer-bugs@forge.provo.novell.com
QA Contact jsrain@suse.com sndirsch@suse.com

Comment # 10 on bug 963344 from
Well, for one thing, this is clearly not a problem of the installer; changing
bug component.

As for the real problem: With a rolling release like Tumbleweed it is very
problematic to try to use binary driver packages from a 3rd party like NVidia.
This may or may not work; the general tendency is that this does not work.
NVidia does a great job providing Linux drivers, but even they cannot keep up
with all those new kernel versions that are constantly arriving.

As a SUSE system developer, I have the same situation on my workstation
machine. The only reasonable workaround is to build the driver manually from
the half-manual packages also provided by NVidia - the thing called
NVidia-xxxxx.run .

Yes, this is painful since for every kernel update you will have to repeat that
- after the newly installed kernel is booted. But this is the only reliable way
out of this problem.

This is the price for being on a bleeding edge system. The alternative is to
use Leap 42.1 or a stable openSUSE release.


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