-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 El 2013-10-09 a las 12:17 +0200, C escribió:
This manual install route has got at least one acquaintance of mine into a disaster with openSUSE. He searched on his own and found the manual install. He was told yes this is the "right way" to install the driver so he followed the steps. He didn't know what he was doing, but can follow instructions and got it all installed without any real issues. A few days later a new kernel came down the pipe and splat... his system wouldn't boot up with graphical anymore. He didn't know what to do to fix it (he's new to Linux), and with no way to check the internet for solutions, he reinstalled from scratch.
Oh :-( Did he not have multiversion active for the kernel? He should have been able to boot the previous kernel from grub menu.
I guess what I'm saying is installing from the tarball is fine for us old farts who know the game, but to point new users at this method is... not really a good idea in my view unless they are explicitly asking for this method due to some special case requirements they have (like using a non-default kernel).
I agree. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 "Celadon" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlJVw8QACgkQja8UbcUWM1xL5AD/R9u1Sp/IHO5/+lvnwwDhpegi u+w2ktooNg3aOlzRMIUA/iPW/vB/u7M8XX7euEFWMOU0VlmEjGenATtu4rElPPZt =+SS2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----