On Monday 25 November 2013 15.10:16 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2013-11-25 10:30, Richard Brown wrote:
On Sun, 2013-11-24 at 17:39 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
There are people that are waiting till it is available, without installing 13.1 till it is. Others are asking, and we can only tell them to wait, or try the hard way (which not all want).
The question I have for them is..'why'? I've not used the proprietary nvidia drivers since openSUSE 12.1 and I don't miss them one bit
Some cards simply do not work with nouveau and users are forced to install the proprietary driver. And in those many cases where nouveau work, it can not be used for demanding applications such as games - for example, the opensource flight simulator, fgfs. Nouveau does not have hardware accel nor 3D support, at least for my card.
But that's not the issue. There is an rpm for the driver, but it comes late. That is the issue.
Did you know what kind of drivers need the end-users ? We have 4 versions and my tests reveal that we can only build G01, g02 g03 even if without a local obs, that's a lot of manual work. -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot