What | Removed | Added |
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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 |
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.