Marcus Meissner wrote: > 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.)
Very interesting - that's nice to know. I wonder if "soon" means 10.2 time frame, or sooner... Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
