On 5/4/07, Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Benji Weber wrote:
> 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.
No, this repo contains only the 1.0-9631.
And the legacy.
He's saying (and I agree, since it's obviously the right thing to do)
that it would be nice to have the same choice of drivers as ubuntu,
because these drivers are not a "one size fits all" proposition. For
some cards, only the legacy driver will work, while other, newer cards
will only work with the latest. Suse users are stuck with only the
stable version whether it works or not, otherwise they have to do the
manual download and install, and have to rebuild the driver glue after
every kernel update.
Ask Nvidia to host the latest version of their drivers if you want.
Just because ubuntu are willing to break copyright law, and hope linux
developers don't sue them, doesn't mean that Novell/openSUSE can.
Also you can grab the .spec file for the nvidia drivers from the build
service (build.opensuse.org) and create your own packages if you want.
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Benjamin Weber
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