>>> Bernhard Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/05/06 12:00 PM >>>
>Hello,
>
>* Robert Schiele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-09-05 01:01]:
>> Your only chance to improve this situation is to force the hardware
vendors to
>> provide open specs or drivers. If you don't have the power to do so,
you lost
>> in the first place.
>
>Well, and what is if the hardware vendor develops _no_ driver at all
>for Linux after that?
To be honest, I understand the point of the kernel development team but
I also understand the hardware vendors not being willing to open their
sources.
Nevertheless, I'm trying to find a solution suitable for the user (if
the kernel maintainers have a problem with legal issues on the nvidia
drivers, THEY should sue them). I think WE of the opensuse.org project
should focus on our users and to make it conveniant for them.
Novell takes somewhat a strange position in this game, as they released
RPMs for SLE{D,S}, which luckily work with SuSE Linux 10.1 (even though
it's not the ACTUAL driver anymore). But they're NOT willing to create
new RPMs for openSUSE nor are there RPMs with the actual driver.
I think, while focusing on the END-USER, I'll just start to create these
RPMs by myself; I guess the .spec file of the released RPMs is
available? Up to now I have NO CLUE how to make an RPM, but I have
experiance in software packaging in general and I don't see an RPM as
something different; so most probable I'll figure out how to do it.
Remains only one problem: In best case I can compile and test packages
for x86_64, as that's what I'm running myself. Others will be
compilable, but I could not test them. Will this be a problem?
Could anyone give me some indications on how to process creating such an
RPM? I'd take care of all sort of updates (be it new release of nVidia
Driver and/or new Kernel's from openSUSE, which require the kernel
module to be recompiled).
Thank you for all the valued help.
Dominique
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