Am Samstag, 13. Mai 2006 21:04 schrieb Mark Hellman: > > You're wrong. Suse Linux never came with binary Nvidia and/or ATI > > drivers. You always had to dowload them. There is _no_ change here. > > I am not wrong (at least in the case of NVidia). On previous versions, a > user could download and automatically install the Nvidia driver just by > selecting a check box in YaST Online Update. > > > This was always the case. You always needed kernel-source to recompile > > the kernel modules after an update. > > Actually, if a user installed the NVidia driver using the above method > (YOU), a manual recompilation of the driver was NOT necessary. Read the > first paragraph of the following How-To: > http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html#3 > > The same happened with Smartlink and AVM binary drivers. Please do your homework before posting. AVM drivers were removed, yes. But smartlink drivers are still there.
> > > But now, you have the possibility to build a > > proper kmp module, which might work also after a kernel update. > > The only certain things so far are: > - The NVidia driver is more difficult to install in 10.1 than on 10.0. Perhaps. But now you at least know, what you are doing. It's more Linux-like, not Windows-like :-) > - A sysadmin has much more trouble managing workstations and servers > (yes, servers too) because after each kernel security update he needs to > recompile binary drivers that before he didn't need to worry about. Running binary drivers from ATI or Nvidia on servers seems a bad idea for me. But I guess we do not have the same definition of server. > - Lots > of users will believe their laptop's modems don't work on Linux, even > though their are Smartlink based. On previous SuSE versions the Smartlink > driver was automatically installed and configured. See above. > I can't see any advantage for users in this Novell decision. If somebody > can find one advantage, please show me. You mentioned Smartlink. They put the driver from kernel to userspace. So it already was a succesful decision in one case. Of course you are right, that in 10.1 there is no advantage for _users_. But the whole story is more about the work of the kernel developers, debugging closed source drivers instead of writing open source ones etc. -- Üdvözlettel -- Mit freundlichen Grüssen, Marcel Hilzinger --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
