On 06/02/12 16:32, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 06 February 2012 16:18:00 Basil Chupin wrote:
Only this morning the kernel was updated to 3.2.4 and the nVidia driver repo produced exactly zero as an update - and, as usual, had to compile the driver myself.
Strange tale, but true..... No, you misunderstand. The kmp nvidia driver doesn't have to be updated when you get a new kernel. It will automatically load into the new kernel without having to do anything.
But this only works if you are using the distribution kernel (and the accompanying kmp package). The idea is that suse takes care as far as possible to maintain binary compatibility between kernels within a release so that you don't have to recompile external modules. The way it works is that a module in the updates directory of the kernel's /lib/modules directory gets symlinked into the weak-updates directory of the new kernel's modules directory, and can be used without having to do anything else.
Since you are running upstream kernels, without binary compatibility guarantees (or even attempts), then yes, you are indeed on your own.
You have explained this better than I could. Now the OP, and especially Felix, should be more than happy :-) . BC -- A three-year-old boy was examining his testicles while taking a bath. "Mum" he asked, "are these my brains?" "Not yet," she replied. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org