Feature changed by: khrys oschilewski (khrysro) Feature #316956, revision 9 Title: Device Driver Manager for openSUSE openSUSE Distribution: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: giuseppe rossi (hawake) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hi, i think that it could be useful to allow users to switch between OpenSource/Proprietary drivers in use (if both are available obviously) using a simple GUI created ad-hoc for the desktop in use (KDE -> Qt , GNOME/Xfce/Lxde -> GTK). In this way, if there is any kind of problem with a driver a not-expert user can disable it or switch to another one. Therefore i suggest to develop a device driver manager for openSUSE that could be included in YaST, or as a desktop application accessible by a non-root user (like Apper for updates). In certain Debian (Mint, Ubuntu...) derivatives are using something like this: [0] http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=113559&f=47 [1] https://github.com/SolydXK/device-driver-manager Thanks for reading, Bye hawake Relations: - auto detect video card for driver install (feature/id: driver management, easy to use, for new users) Use Case: For instance, think to the video card drivers. Recently nVidia, AMD and Intel are improving their drivers but not always are the best choice (especially AMD...). Discussion: #1: knight su (knightsu) (2015-12-02 07:08:54) It would also be useful to allow users to switch between OpenSource/Proprietary drivers during the installation phase itself. Since many new users faced problems with the nvidia-plasma5 in openSUSE Leap 42.1 post installaion. #2: Emanuel Castelo (two_dogs) (2015-12-03 06:52:26) i have seen mints version of driver manager in action, it is mostly bullet proof, the only thing i see where it could be improved is in the dealing with previous installed drivers thru any means, mints does not do a sanity check that i can see. + #3: khrys oschilewski (khrysro) (2015-12-30 22:10:16) + In other rpm distribution (Mageia) have a "easy way" to do the same + https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Setup_the_graphical_server (https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Setup_the_graphical_server) + , could be ported or adadpted to openSUSE, I prefer the driver manager + of ubuntu, because is the easiest, but it could be useful to do some + similar. + I hope this idea will take in mind and be entered to openSUSE, It will + be most friendly to new users. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/316956