SuSE is not at fault here
Yes it is. SuSE is shipping a product which just doesn't work. If it doesn't work they should say "not supported", preferably on the box, but at least as part of the installation. I don't care about the politics, I care about whether it works or not. I'm hoping that SuSE will have done something sensible for 8.0, like stop the X configuration until the RPMs can be acquired (via the internet or whatever), then running a script to plug in the right bits before running sax. i.e. automate the hoops that need to be jumped through in order to make it work properly.
P.S. It is amazing to see that the complaint level is so much higher for nVIDIA graphics card then WinModems. Maybe if they were called winVIDIA
That's because no one claims that Winmodems will work flawlessly. If SuSE made it clear that nVIDIA graphics cards don't work properly without extra help then no one would be complaining. -- 9:27am up 42 days, 17:51, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.12, 0.12