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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. 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. 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. There are actually 4 cases 1) Nouveau is known to work with video card 2) Vender is needed/wanted, and known to work 3) Vender is needed/wanted, but is untested, 4) Vender is needed/wanted, but known to fail That script can be kept up to date as new versions come out, but it will fail-soft, and will warn or refuse combinations that it does not know about to prevent traps for the unwary. This is how existing fetch and install scripts already work so it is nothing new here, its already done in both Leap and Opensuse (And just about every other distro). -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org