How about a restricted modules manager that downloads and installs the correct driver from the nvidia download site?
Simon Sloan schrieb: > Benji Weber wrote: > >> On 5/4/07, Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> 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. >> > > Oh please, isn't a bit silly to play the dmca card here? We're past > moralizing about whether it's a crime to have proper > hardware-accelerated OpenGL. Clearly, the nvidia driver is not a > dervative work of the linux kernel, otherwise how does it run so well on > windoze, freebsd and solaris? > > The real need here is for proper driver support for opensuse users, not > finger pointing and arguing with video card vendors, and their customers. > > Joe > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
