On mardi, 19 mars 2019 13.36:34 h CET Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Tuesday 2019-03-19 11:01, Stasiek Michalski wrote:
On the third hand, all the stuff I read on the opensuse lists about tumbleweed and its "quirks" is why I'm *not* using tumbleweed.
- nvidia and tumbleweed kernels
Maybe somebody will realize at some point that dkms is a better option with a distro that changes kernels every week.
The rc phase of the kernel is on the order of 7 *weeks*. There is *that much* time between the API break, and the source release of these new APIs to the wider public -- and then probably *another* week until that all has passed the openSUSE machinery involving OpenQA and so on.
From when I built fglrx, nvidia (during the 96.x to 346.x-ish era), vmware and vbox modules, updating the source to new APIs was not hard. Certainly did not take seven weeks.
Maybe somebody will realize that nvidia has a terrible kernel development following procedure. Or, for the marketeers, "uncompetetive". Maybe if R&D spent less time on trying to cheat the benchmarks.. but I digress.
Maybe there too much urban legend. Nvidia works (especially the official rpm, thanks Stefan) in a reliable way. There's people on ML you can heard almost each time, but they have a mixture of bad practice (nvidia the hard way), and very old hardware (really old). Thanks openSUSE, and TW I can life safely on the edge, and my hardware is supported and working. -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch Bareos Partner, openSUSE Member, fsfe supporter GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org