Would be nice to have ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/ updated to 177.80 too...
Why wait? As I stated in the "offtopic" list, the driver was made available by nVidia on 7 October (and today is 20 October, my time). Heck of a long time for openSUSE to come up with an upgrade.
In any case, isn't one of the redeeming features of Linux distros. is the ability to "do your own thing" without having to wait for "fixes" from "The Company"?
No, actually the key feature is the nice package managment. Doing our own thing would break that. ;)
Exactly. We can all go and manually install the driver... sure.. fine.. but then the next time a kernel fix comes out, and we restart... poof... CLI only until we recompile the kernel modules. That is a MAJOR pain to deal with when you are remotely administering or supporting openSUSE installs.... and an equal pain on my regular computers at home. I am tired of spending time twiddling when I don't have to. That said... I've been running the 177 drivers for almost a month now... :-P C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org