Feature changed by: Lee Matheson (oldcpu) Feature #308467, revision 3 Title: Proprietary install driver HELP guide openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Lee Matheson (oldcpu) Description: A constant criticism of openSUSE is the lack of an easy continuous installation of proprietary graphic drivers.  Is it not possible to post specific (and very obvious) help links to community wiki that provides guidance as to how the proprietary graphic drivers can be installed  (as opposed to just a general statement) ? i.e. a link for community help page for ATI proprietary graphic drivers and a similar one for nVidia proprietary graphic drivers. Discussion: #1: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2010-05-06 23:15:41) What's wrong with http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA_drivers ? + #2: Lee Matheson (oldcpu) (2010-05-26 11:58:06) + > What's wrong with http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA_drivers + (http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA_drivers) ? + Such guides are useful.  Thats not the point of the feature ! + The idea behind the feature is to provide links in the "as packaged" + openSUSE release, perhaps in the browser bookmarks (as packaged) or in + a folder on the desktop (although I dislike the clutter of + that).  Hence maybe pre-packaged bookmarks is the best idea ? + IMHO the need for Links already in openSUSE (such that one is not + forced to surf and get many hits, some of which are excellent and some + of which are not good) is becoming even more important now, with the + dropping of sax2 and with nVidia reducing their support for "nv", where + "nouveau" driver is still not as mature as many would like. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308467

What's wrong with http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA_drivers (http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA_drivers) ? Such guides are useful.  Thats not the point of the feature ! The idea behind the feature is to provide links in the "as packaged" openSUSE release, perhaps in the browser bookmarks (as packaged) or in a folder on the desktop (although I dislike the clutter of

Feature changed by: jpxviii jpxviii (jpxviii) Feature #308467, revision 5 Title: Proprietary install driver HELP guide openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable + openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed + Priority + Requester: Important Requested by: Lee Matheson (oldcpu) Description: A constant criticism of openSUSE is the lack of an easy continuous installation of proprietary graphic drivers.  Is it not possible to post specific (and very obvious) help links to community wiki that provides guidance as to how the proprietary graphic drivers can be installed  (as opposed to just a general statement) ? i.e. a link for community help page for ATI proprietary graphic drivers and a similar one for nVidia proprietary graphic drivers. Discussion: #1: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2010-05-06 23:15:41) What's wrong with http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA_drivers ? #2: Lee Matheson (oldcpu) (2010-05-26 11:58:06) that).  Hence maybe pre-packaged bookmarks is the best idea ? IMHO the need for Links already in openSUSE (such that one is not forced to surf and get many hits, some of which are excellent and some of which are not good) is becoming even more important now, with the dropping of sax2 and with nVidia reducing their support for "nv", where "nouveau" driver is still not as mature as many would like. #3: Joe D'Angelo (wolfspider2) (2010-07-18 03:53:06) I did this and it worked for me. I un-installed the new nvidia driver that comes with 11.3 and re-added the old 11.2 repository for nvidia. I then picked the kernel from the list in yast and installed it. It says there is nothing to support it and you need to ignore this waring and break it. You will get a few other warnings as it binds the kernel. Now you should have some choice as to what to set your resolution to. I then went to the nvidia web site and got the NVIDIA-Linux.run file for my card. I ran it as root as directed to. You need to have all the development tools and the kernel source for this to work. It re- compiled the kernel and now I can run the nvidia config app and have the proper graphic support I need. I know this is a bit on the strange side but I have seen no better ways to handle this so far. The openSUSE development team seems to be a bit behind the curve on this. They really need to start reading what we the users are saying.   -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308467

What's wrong with http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA_drivers (http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA_drivers) ? Such guides are useful.  Thats not the point of the feature ! The idea behind the feature is to provide links in the "as packaged" openSUSE release, perhaps in the browser bookmarks (as packaged) or in a folder on the desktop (although I dislike the clutter of

Feature changed by: jpxviii jpxviii (jpxviii) Feature #308467, revision 7 Title: Proprietary install driver HELP guide Hackweek V: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority - Requester: Important + Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Lee Matheson (oldcpu) Description: A constant criticism of openSUSE is the lack of an easy continuous installation of proprietary graphic drivers.  Is it not possible to post specific (and very obvious) help links to community wiki that provides guidance as to how the proprietary graphic drivers can be installed  (as opposed to just a general statement) ? i.e. a link for community help page for ATI proprietary graphic drivers and a similar one for nVidia proprietary graphic drivers. Discussion: #1: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2010-05-06 23:15:41) What's wrong with http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA_drivers ? #2: Lee Matheson (oldcpu) (2010-05-26 11:58:06) that).  Hence maybe pre-packaged bookmarks is the best idea ? IMHO the need for Links already in openSUSE (such that one is not forced to surf and get many hits, some of which are excellent and some of which are not good) is becoming even more important now, with the dropping of sax2 and with nVidia reducing their support for "nv", where "nouveau" driver is still not as mature as many would like. #3: Joe D'Angelo (wolfspider2) (2010-07-18 03:53:06) I did this and it worked for me. I un-installed the new nvidia driver that comes with 11.3 and re-added the old 11.2 repository for nvidia. I then picked the kernel from the list in yast and installed it. It says there is nothing to support it and you need to ignore this waring and break it. You will get a few other warnings as it binds the kernel. Now you should have some choice as to what to set your resolution to. I then went to the nvidia web site and got the NVIDIA-Linux.run file for my card. I ran it as root as directed to. You need to have all the development tools and the kernel source for this to work. It re- compiled the kernel and now I can run the nvidia config app and have the proper graphic support I need. I know this is a bit on the strange side but I have seen no better ways to handle this so far. The openSUSE development team seems to be a bit behind the curve on this. They really need to start reading what we the users are saying.   -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308467

What's wrong with http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA_drivers (http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA_drivers) ? Such guides are useful.  Thats not the point of the feature ! The idea behind the feature is to provide links in the "as packaged" openSUSE release, perhaps in the browser bookmarks (as packaged) or in a folder on the desktop (although I dislike the clutter of

Feature changed by: Tomáš Chvátal (scarabeus_iv) Feature #308467, revision 10 Title: Proprietary install driver HELP guide Hackweek V: Rejected by Karl Cheng (qantas94heavy) reject reason: Not done. Priority Requester: Important - openSUSE Distribution: New + openSUSE Distribution: Rejected by Tomáš Chvátal (scarabeus_iv) + reject reason: There is no plan to tweak this behaviour. Also amd today + has amdgpu that is fully integrated. For the nvidia it can't get much + simpler than http://opensuse-community.org/ Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Lee Matheson (oldcpu) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: A constant criticism of openSUSE is the lack of an easy continuous installation of proprietary graphic drivers.  Is it not possible to post specific (and very obvious) help links to community wiki that provides guidance as to how the proprietary graphic drivers can be installed  (as opposed to just a general statement) ? i.e. a link for community help page for ATI proprietary graphic drivers and a similar one for nVidia proprietary graphic drivers. Discussion: #1: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2010-05-06 23:15:41) What's wrong with http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA_drivers ? #2: Lee Matheson (oldcpu) (2010-05-26 11:58:06) that).  Hence maybe pre-packaged bookmarks is the best idea ? IMHO the need for Links already in openSUSE (such that one is not forced to surf and get many hits, some of which are excellent and some of which are not good) is becoming even more important now, with the dropping of sax2 and with nVidia reducing their support for "nv", where "nouveau" driver is still not as mature as many would like. #3: Joe D'Angelo (wolfspider2) (2010-07-18 03:53:06) I did this and it worked for me. I un-installed the new nvidia driver that comes with 11.3 and re-added the old 11.2 repository for nvidia. I then picked the kernel from the list in yast and installed it. It says there is nothing to support it and you need to ignore this waring and break it. You will get a few other warnings as it binds the kernel. Now you should have some choice as to what to set your resolution to. I then went to the nvidia web site and got the NVIDIA-Linux.run file for my card. I ran it as root as directed to. You need to have all the development tools and the kernel source for this to work. It re- compiled the kernel and now I can run the nvidia config app and have the proper graphic support I need. I know this is a bit on the strange side but I have seen no better ways to handle this so far. The openSUSE development team seems to be a bit behind the curve on this. They really need to start reading what we the users are saying.   -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308467