On 2011/07/19 13:22 (GMT+0300) Stan Goodman composed:
Without adding that repo, YaST Software immediately after an installation was completed but before any updates were applied would show: xorg-x11-driver-video-7.6-52.4.x86_64.rpm currently installed, which from http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/ you can see was built in February. It would also show xorg-x11-driver-video-7.6-53.56.1.x86_64.rpm as the newer available version you probably have now which http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.4/rpm/x86_64/ shows was built in April. Compare those to the obviously very much newer xorg-x11-driver-video-7.6-229.1.x86_64.rpm from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_11.4/x86_64/ that you'd get now by adding the new repo and updating, and you should see a pretty substantial likelihood that time's been ample to incorporate Sandy Bridge support, even if it hadn't been mentioned elsewhere in the thread that that is indeed the case. The current driver is now 7.6-53.58.1. I'll update to it now (although I'm not sure this is a necessary step), then add the new repo, and
On 07/19/2011 01:58 PM, Felix Miata wrote: post what happened. Neither of the actions in the small paragraph above was successful. The first, which I think was superfluous anyway, closed the Software Manager window at once without doing anything. The attempt to add the repo to
On 07/19/2011 02:59 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: the list brought the following: "Unable to create repository from URL http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_11.4/x86_64". -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org