Hi. El Miércoles, 15 de octubre de 2014 22:13:39 Dmitriy Perlow escribió:
jcsl <trcs@gmx.com> Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:35:50 +0300:
Hi.
Is it possible to have the NVIDIA driver packaged for Factory? Now that it is a rolling version there seems to be a growing interest by users on it. But I read frequently that users won't install Factory because this driver isn't available (AFAIK). I myself am using Factory in a netbook with Intel graphics and I would like to use it in my desktop too but I don't want to be reinstalling the driver on every kernel update.
If packaging the driver isn't an option, is there an automatized way to have the driver working after kernel upgrades?
Greetings.
Usually Nvidia & Amd don't support the freshest kernel and Xorg and so they don't support Factory and other rolling distributions.
Not long ago, I used to install the NVIDIA driver the "hard way" and it worked not only with the latest kernels and XOrg but even with RC versions. I don't know if that isn't true anymore but I know for sure that now I'm not interested in installing the driver manually again. User repositories are great, but you never now for how long are they going to be up and updated. Could someone explain the reasons for not having proprietary drivers repositories for Factory? Is it a technical reason, lack of manpower or licensing issues? P.S.: This is really a reason for users to not install Factory even if they're willing to do so. At least that's what I guess from comments in forums and blogs. I may be wrong, sure, but I know of at least one case :D. Greetings. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org