On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 20:51 +0200, 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.) > The module was included in the kernel update and was used -if- that is what you setup the system to use. If you downloaded the driver directly from Nvidia and installed/used that one the one included with the kernel update was ignored and you had to re-compile the one from Nvidia.
Is that a correct assumption? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
