On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Tuesday, October 08, 2013 05:16:59 PM Carlos E. R. wrote:
Normally, if you activate the nvidia repo you get automatically the proper driver.
But not for the kernel in Kernel:/stable/standard
I am trying to build an OEM installable image of oS12.3 and would like to use the kernel in Kernel:/stable/standard. But then I cannot also include the nvidia RPMs. I wish nvidia would add support for that kernel as well.
True, you do need to build your own driver when you use a Kernel this isn't "default". This was about/for a new-to-openSUSE user though, who is highly unlikely to be using the Kernel:/stable/standard repo. I hate to see the help a new user gets as pointing them at the difficult/complicated route first... instead of the simple "add the nvidia community repo and update" solution. This manual install route has got at least one acquaintance of mine into a disaster with openSUSE. He searched on his own and found the manual install. He was told yes this is the "right way" to install the driver so he followed the steps. He didn't know what he was doing, but can follow instructions and got it all installed without any real issues. A few days later a new kernel came down the pipe and splat... his system wouldn't boot up with graphical anymore. He didn't know what to do to fix it (he's new to Linux), and with no way to check the internet for solutions, he reinstalled from scratch. I guess what I'm saying is installing from the tarball is fine for us old farts who know the game, but to point new users at this method is... not really a good idea in my view unless they are explicitly asking for this method due to some special case requirements they have (like using a non-default kernel). C. -- openSUSE 12.3 x86_64, KDE 4.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org