Re: [opensuse] NVIDIA drivers

2007-05-09 Thread Simon Lewis
Hello All I sometimes feel that this debate is a long way away from reality... PCs as we know then today have a visual interface, this ultimately means that video cards and their driver are unavoidable hardware/firmware. I could understand a moral standpoint from the kernel developers if they

Re: [opensuse] Automating the NFS mount

2007-05-07 Thread Simon Lewis
Does /mnt/folder already exist? I think this needs to be present if the folder is to be mounted on start up? Simon Mohamed Haidar schrieb: Hello all, I finally got the nfs service to work. In retrospect i see that it was kind of trivial but for a newbe nothing really is. My question now

Re: [opensuse] NVIDIA drivers

2007-05-07 Thread Simon Lewis
Hello Benji Which SUSE/Novell e-mail address would you recommend..? Best regards, Simon. Benjamin Rosenberg schrieb: On May 6, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Alexey Eremenko wrote: I would like to see more proprietary drivers and applications in openSUSE. This includes: NVIDIA, softmodems, Wifi, ...

Re: [opensuse] NVIDIA drivers

2007-05-07 Thread Simon Lewis
Hello Matthias That is exactly the point, Novell IS a large American company. If it wanted to, it would find a way to come to an agreement with nVidia, just as Microsoft has done ;-) Simon Matthias Hopf schrieb: On May 05, 07 09:45:00 +0200, Simon Lewis wrote: Why can Ubuntu include

Re: [opensuse] NVIDIA drivers

2007-05-05 Thread Simon Lewis
Why can Ubuntu include the NVIDIA drivers in there repository and openSUSE can't...??? Ubuntu even has a excellent restricted modules manager which identifies the correct NVIDIA driver to install. Above all, Ubuntu has very conservative policy regarding product infringements. I have the

Re: [opensuse] NVIDIA drivers

2007-05-05 Thread Simon Lewis
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

Re: [opensuse] NVIDIA drivers

2007-05-05 Thread Simon Lewis
. Best regards, Simon Benji Weber schrieb: 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

[opensuse] NVIDIA drivers

2007-05-04 Thread Simon Lewis
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