On Wednesday 09 December 2015 14:51:37 René Krell wrote:
2015-12-09 14:19 GMT+01:00 Andrei Borzenkov
: On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 4:09 PM, René Krell
wrote: I'm using http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Bumblebee-Project:/nVidi a:/latest/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/. Isn't the Bumblebee nVidia repository already some kind of "guarantee" by the maintainer for compiling against the TW kernel not to fail?> Of course not.
In fact, you're right for the case of DKMS.
In worst case it fails to install, which I haven't noticed to this time. I guess the maintainers of this repository would not launch a new version if it won't be installable, or who checks whether there is a basic problem.
it is not a problem of new version, but the problem of old version no more building against new kernel.
But isn't this is a general risk if one uses drivers outside the kernel sources, not just from Bumblebee, but also when pulling them from the vendor? From my experience the last year: I'm not happy not to use the nouveau driver, but they are definitely broken for my hardware beginning from kernel 3.19 and there is a open bug report on both sides, OpenSUSE and freedesktop.org. Bumblebee is just a faster and cleaner way to gain the goal regarding nVidia. BTW: Reinstalling them is necessary just due to the changing modules directories after kernel updates of versions within a.b.c-revision. There's probably no better choice if the "nouveau" driver or depending open source acceleration layers (GLX. OpenGL, EGL, Mesa, whatever the native driver doesn't link to) stopped working reliably. At least the initial reporter has the chance to check, whether this is rather a high-level problem in the graphics stack, like Plasma, right? I made a video of the problem, so you can check whether it's the same you are experiencing. You can find it at the following link: https://timod.stackstorage.com/index.php/s/MB1SFxRjLnOagmZ -- Timo Diedering -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org