Op donderdag 10 maart 2016 10:15:19 CET schreef John Andersen:
On 03/10/2016 03:29 AM, Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink wrote:
Still I think that our time and energy should go in stabilizing and improving nouveau rather than betting on the goodwill of proprietary vendors. This "Our Time" you refer to is really the time of a very few coders who work on nouveau, who (for all I know) aren't even associated with Opensuse. And I suspect, like cooks in a kitchen, there is only room for a few guys on that project.
"Our time" is not only time of the few coders. Though I will be the last one that will prefer showstoppers over the use of proprietary drivers, I see ( and have given :) ) a lot of advice like given here: install the proprietary driver. The number of bug reports on plasma5 and nouveau don't match the number of posts in the forums, G+, Facebook, the ML's I've seen where the proprietary driver was the solution to plasma crashes. Mind, that's just my personal observation.
We will probably ALWAYS have to be ready to allow a vendor's own installer for a proprietary drivers, not only for Nvidia. Linux is a very small tail, and it is not going to be wagging the dog any time soon.
Probably, yes. But that shouldn't keep us from trying to improve things like nouveau, which btw has been so stable for me that I don't use the NVIDIA blob on my PC. No need for it.
I like your Idea, (up thread) of a script that fetches the current vendor installer, version checks it against the kernel version, and installs it if it is known to work, warns if it has NOT been tested, and refuses to do anything if it is known to fail.
IMHO this https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/X11:Bumblebee/nvidia-bumblebee/... would be a very good place to start. But mind, due to NVIDIA's license openSUSE simply cannot include the driver in the distro. We as users can, as described earlier. The NVIDIA repo isn't openSUSE's, it's NVIDIA's. -- 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