Op woensdag 9 maart 2016 21:30:34 CET schreef Carlos E. R.:
On 2016-03-09 21:25, John Andersen wrote:
On 03/09/2016 12:09 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-03-09 21:02, John Andersen wrote:
Terry is not asking for the proprietary drivers to be packaged by Opensuse simply to have the process of fetching them to be automated in some way, and perhaps the need to do so detected at install time, and the offer to run the installer script presented to the user.
Again, even that is not possible for legal reasons.
i just gave you several examples where it is CURRENTLY being done in 13.2 and you come back with a nihilistic answer of "Not Possible"?
I can only repeat what the people that have the power to do it have said again and again: no. If you want to argue, argue with them. I only said what I heard (read) them say many times.
Let's not have the debate going in a yes/no direction. Here's about reality, tested minutes ago from both a Leap 42.1 and a recent Tumbleweed image: The installer provides "Use online resources" and "Use add-on media" options. The latter ( again, tested and working ) provides adding additional repos. I added the X11:Bumblebee repo, which contains the NVIDIA packages I need for my Optimus laptop. Likewise I could add NVIDIA's openSUSE repo, no problem. So, IMHO it already is possible, yet the route to get it done isn't clear and it (currently) requires manual addition of repo URL's. All this is not new. I've actually needed this in the past when nouveau was not playing nicely with my (too new) NVIDIA card. Still I think that our time and energy should go in stabilizing and improving nouveau rather than betting on the goodwill of proprietary vendors. -- Gertjan Lettink, a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Board Member openSUSE Forums Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org