On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 11:49:57AM -0700, J Sloan wrote:
Marcus Meissner wrote:
He's right. In all previous suse releases, you never had to download any nvidia drivers. In yast there was a checkbox called "install nvidia drivers". No download, no recompile, just a mouse click, and the user never had to worry about video drivers when the kernel was upgraded, since the wrapper provided a level of indirection. That is gone now - not a problem for power users, who simply download the drivers from the nvidia website, and rebuild the drivers whenever their kernel is upgraded.
Actually this click download the NVidia Driver from nvidia.com and installed it.
It certainly installed *an* nvidia driver, but the details of that were hidden from the user - and it also removed the necessity of rebuilding the driver after kernel changes.
I hope that soon we will have a URL to add as installation source ... and then this will be as seamless as before. (Likely pointing to NVidias own site, but with SUSE specific -kmp- modules.) Ciao, Marcus