On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 01:01:37PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
No real explanation given. [...] WONTFIX, build it in the BS. WTF!
That's a perfectly valid reason. You can build it in the build service or wait for others to do it.
BTW, see project: home:sndirsch package: tiny-nvidia-installer Better copy it immediately. I plan to remove it again pretty soon.
SUSE has no obligation to fulfill your wishes unless you have a very convincing reason (and no, it's not you who needs to be convinced).
I gave him a bunch of reasons. 1) It's an undocumented way to install the NVIDIA driver. The driver update process should be used instead - if possible. Otherwise use the official installer. See http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html for details. 2) There's no official download location for up-to-date sources for it, so sooner or later it gets broken anyway and I won't notice, because I no longer use it. 3) IMHO using tiny-nvidia-installer is completely useless. Using it looks easy in the first place - given that you have gcc and kernel-source installed, but you'll wake up after the first kernel update (Xserver is no longer starting!), because you need to recompile the kernel module after each update. Since this is a manual step anyway, IMHO it's better to know what you're doing and having the complete installer already on your harddisk. At least then you don't need to download the complete driver again and again. IMHO this is well documented in my HOWTO. http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html Probably he cannot be convinced, because he is used to this tool, relies on it and it somewhat works for him (good enough). Best regards, 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 ------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org