* Rodney Baker <rodney.baker@iinet.net.au> [08-05-18 09:55]:
On Sunday, 5 August 2018 22:45:40 ACST Knurpht-openSUSE wrote:
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How dangerous is it to download on of the kernels from the Opensuse search site. Kernel.org says the latest stable release is 4.17.12. Under search/42.3/community packages, there are a few offerings shown at this revision level. How bad is it to install one of these kernels?
Don
Yes, you can install a newer kernel. From the Kernel repo. But .... that will mean you have to manually install the NVIDIA blob, and that you have to install the kernel development packages, i.e. NVIDIA, the hard way. To be able to test the 4.17 kernel, you can download a TW live iso, create a USB stick from it, boot it and see if the NICs work.
Whilst that is true, there is nothing difficult about installing the NVIDIA proprietary drivers manually - you just need to do it before the X server starts, so boot into single user mode, run the installer and reboot once completed.
it is even easier than that. the reboot after installing the nv driver in single user mode is not necessary, just "systemctl isolate graphical" and you will be given the graphical logon screen requesting your password (or not).
Gertjan is correct - you need the kernel dev packages because the installer builds the modules from source.
If you set up dkms (not officially supported on openSuSE, afaik), you can avoid needing to manually reinstall the kernel drivers each kernel update, but KDE/X11 updates often overwrite other necessary files, breaking some functionality (corrected by re-installing the driver after such updates).
I have simply gotten into the habit of reinstalling the driver each time I do a Tumbleweed "zypper dup", although sometimes it isn't necessary.
I also add the nvidia modules to initrd using dracut, so they're loaded early and I can get nice, hi-res text consoles (vty0-7) as well.
BTW, I've just updated to 4.17.12 and, so far, no problems on my machine.
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