On 5/4/07, Simon Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear openSUSE developers/packagers
Ubuntu 7.04 now has 3 NVIDIA drivers in restricted modules:
nvidia-glx-legacy (1.0-7184)
nvidia-glx (1.0-9631) #Last version to support Geforce 2 MX 400 amongst others
nvidia-glx-new (1.0-9755)
It would be nice to have the same 3 drivers in the openSUSE 10.2 non-oss
repository.
Nvidia host these packages themselves in the repository at
ftp://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/10.2/ . Add this to yast ->
installation sources -> add -> specify URL, and install the packages.
For my graphic card the 1.0-9631 is the correct driver.
For the moment I have to install the driver manually using the NVIDIA installer
script. In the recent months there have been 3 kernel-updates and I have to
manually reinstall the driver every time the kernel is updated.
Use the packages from the above repository, then it won't break on
kernel updates.
If the above drivers were in opensSUSE's repository, then the driver would
automatically be upgraded when the kernel is updated.
This happens with nvidia's repository.
They will not be distributed by openSUSE/Novell as the drivers violate
the Linux kernel developers' copyright, so openSUSE/Novell would be a
party to copyright infringement.
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Benjamin Weber
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