On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 08:27:40PM +0200, Philipp Thomas wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:39:55 +0200, Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@suse.de> wrote:
I'm wondering why we still provide these NVIDIA RPMs. It's a lot of work and I don't see any benefit, since apparently nobody is using them anyway.
Ah, but you're not providing the latest and greatest fast enough ;-P
I believe I do.
Seriously though, some people just don't think about the consequences of using the official non-rpm package from NVIDIA.
And some even mix that one with already installed NVIDIA RPMs. What happens is that this installer moves the existing files of the RPMs to some backup directory before installing his own X stack. Guess what happens if you then uninstall the RPMs and afterwards run nvidia-uninstall. The files of the RPMs are restored but no longer belong to any package. This is what exactly happened in this case. Therefore I suggested to reinstall the RPMs and unistall them immediately again. Stefan Public Key available ------------------------------------------------------ Stefan Dirsch (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Tel: 0911-740 53 0 Maxfeldstraße 5 FAX: 0911-740 53 479 D-90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org