On Thursday 16 October 2014 17.52:10 jcsl wrote:
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?
Licensing evil inside : it's not allowed to host nvidia blob and thus need a ping-pong between Stefan doing the packaging work on obs then build on a non public obs, plus send the builded rpm to nvidia for publishing. All of those step need manual intervention, which has you can guess is not really affordable for a day changing factory. The drivers are really really well maintained, and it always possible to branch the repo (with respecting the no publish no build flag, like the master has) and build them locally with osc build extract build resulted rpm and consume them for you.
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.
Nope it's wrong way thinking. They should try factory with nouveau (it performs mostly equal and sometimes better) than the proprietary in 80% of use case. Now for the others, perhaps ( and I use high conditional ) we in community can find a way to propose a build and a hosting of the driver for end users. But is this really useful ? And for which cards, supporting the build for the legacy, g01 g02 g03 and more is just expensive build time & bandwidth if there's no usage behind -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Board, fsfe fellowship GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org