On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 11:49:57AM -0700, J Sloan wrote: > > > Marcus Meissner wrote: > >> He's right. In all previous suse releases, you never had to download any > >> nvidia drivers. In yast there was a checkbox called "install nvidia > >> drivers". > >> No download, no recompile, just a mouse click, and the user never had to > >> worry > >> about video drivers when the kernel was upgraded, since the wrapper > >> provided a > >> level of indirection. That is gone now - not a problem for power users, who > >> simply download the drivers from the nvidia website, and rebuild the > >> drivers > >> whenever their kernel is upgraded. > > > > Actually this click download the NVidia Driver from nvidia.com and > > installed it. > > It certainly installed *an* nvidia driver, but the details of that were hidden > from the user - and it also removed the necessity of rebuilding the driver > after kernel changes.
I hope that soon we will have a URL to add as installation source ... and then this will be as seamless as before. (Likely pointing to NVidias own site, but with SUSE specific -kmp- modules.) Ciao, Marcus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
