Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-29 Thread BandiPat
On Saturday 29 July 2006 13:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ahem, Kreg KH just announced (at OLS) that Novell considers > > these ILLEGAL these days and WILL NOT distribute them.. > > The situation with the nvidia drivers is not quite the same as with > say the madwifi drivers. The nvidia drivers

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-29 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 06:19:42PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ahem, Kreg KH just announced (at OLS) that Novell considers > > these ILLEGAL these days and WILL NOT distribute them.. > > The situation with the nvidia drivers is not quite the same as with say > the madwifi drivers. The nvid

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-29 Thread B . Weber
> Ahem, Kreg KH just announced (at OLS) that Novell considers > these ILLEGAL these days and WILL NOT distribute them.. The situation with the nvidia drivers is not quite the same as with say the madwifi drivers. The nvidia drivers use GPLed shim as the actual kernel module, which their non-free d

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-29 Thread Christoph Thiel
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Janne Karhunen wrote: > > "Most developers of the kernel community consider non-GPL kernel > > modules to be infringing on their copyright. Novell _does respect this > > position_, and _will no longer distribute non-GPL kernel modules_ as > > part of future products." > > >

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-29 Thread J Sloan
Janne Karhunen wrote: > On Saturday 29 July 2006 18:07, Christoph Thiel wrote: > >> "Most developers of the kernel community consider non-GPL kernel modules >> to be infringing on their copyright. Novell _does respect this position_, >> and _will no longer distribute non-GPL kernel modules_ as p

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-29 Thread Janne Karhunen
On Saturday 29 July 2006 18:07, Christoph Thiel wrote: > "Most developers of the kernel community consider non-GPL kernel modules > to be infringing on their copyright. Novell _does respect this position_, > and _will no longer distribute non-GPL kernel modules_ as part of future > products." > >

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-29 Thread Christoph Thiel
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Janne Karhunen wrote: > > Whoever wants to try, with todays kernel update using ATI and NVIDIA > > commercial drivers should now be possible (again). > > > > Add as ZYPP / YUM source: > > Ahem, Kreg KH just announced (at OLS) that Novell considers these > ILLEGAL these days

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-29 Thread Janne Karhunen
On Friday 21 July 2006 00:17, Marcus Meissner wrote: > Hi, > > Whoever wants to try, with todays kernel update using ATI and NVIDIA > commercial drivers should now be possible (again). > > Add as ZYPP / YUM source: Ahem, Kreg KH just announced (at OLS) that Novell considers these ILLEGAL these day

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-26 Thread Gabriel .
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 10:16:03AM -0300, Gabriel. wrote: Its allright Manfred, i have a old Geforce 256.In Kubuntu my card work fine, with the line driver 7174 "Legacy" Could Novell provides the legacy driver that works with the major old hardware ? Please ask NVIDIA not Novell. * I´ve a

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-26 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 04:08:57PM +0200, Martin Schlander wrote: > Onsdag 26 juli 2006 15:53 skrev Andreas Jaeger: > > The kernel will stay the same between SUSE Linux 10.1 and SLE10 - it > > just might be that we release them at different days, > > Good. Let the SLED customers test it for us fir

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-26 Thread Martin Schlander
Onsdag 26 juli 2006 15:53 skrev Andreas Jaeger: > The kernel will stay the same between SUSE Linux 10.1 and SLE10 - it > just might be that we release them at different days, Good. Let the SLED customers test it for us first ;) Martin / cb400f

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-26 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Sven Burmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > Am Donnerstag, 20. Juli 2006 23:17 schrieb Marcus Meissner: >> While these are the SLED 10 drivers, but SLE 10 now has the same kernel as >> SUSE Linux 10.1. > > Is this a one-off, or can SuSE 10.1 users rely on that repo to get the > packages

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-23 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 10:16:03AM -0300, Gabriel. wrote: > Its allright Manfred, i have a old Geforce 256.In Kubuntu my card work fine, > with the line driver 7174 "Legacy" > > Could Novell provides the legacy driver that works with the major old > hardware ? Please ask NVIDIA not Novell. Ciao,

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-23 Thread Christoph Thiel
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Marcus Meissner wrote: > > > Looks like Kyum/yum try to list files in that repo. This is > > > inhibited by the ati web server. However, direct access to files > > > works. So one can get e.g. > > > http://www2.ati.com/suse/repodata/repomd.xml and download other repo > > >

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-22 Thread Gabriel .
Its allright Manfred, i have a old Geforce 256.In Kubuntu my card work fine, with the line driver 7174 "Legacy" Could Novell provides the legacy driver that works with the major old hardware ? thanks a lot!! On 7/22/06, Manfred Tremmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am Samstag, 22. Juli 2006 07:2

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-22 Thread Manfred Tremmel
Am Samstag, 22. Juli 2006 07:21 schrieb Marcus Meissner: > On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 08:18:07PM -0300, Gabriel. wrote: > > Hello Crew Novell/SuSE, > > > > Could incluide the legacy Nvidia driver , please ? > > > > thanks a lot.!!! > > See my original mail, > > ftp://download.nvidia.com/novell/ > > is

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-22 Thread Peter Flodin
On 7/21/06, Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Whoever wants to try, with todays kernel update using ATI and NVIDIA commercial drivers should now be possible (again). Add as ZYPP / YUM source: http://www2.ati.com/suse/ as repo for ATI drivers and I just had to write and s

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-21 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 08:18:07PM -0300, Gabriel. wrote: > Hello Crew Novell/SuSE, > > Could incluide the legacy Nvidia driver , please ? > > thanks a lot.!!! See my original mail, ftp://download.nvidia.com/novell/ is a YUM repo with the binary Nvidia driver. Ciao, Marcus --

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-21 Thread Gabriel .
Hello Crew Novell/SuSE, Could incluide the legacy Nvidia driver , please ? thanks a lot.!!! chau, gabriel On 7/21/06, BandiPat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 21 July 2006 18:09, Andreas Hanke wrote: [...] > Report this to ATI. The repo was not designed by SuSE/Novell people > and the N

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-21 Thread BandiPat
On Friday 21 July 2006 18:09, Andreas Hanke wrote: [...] > Report this to ATI. The repo was not designed by SuSE/Novell people > and the NVidia repo definitely works. > > And actually I think that it's nothing else than a wrong yum setup. > Please post your config file from from /etc/yum.repos.d. >

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-21 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 05:51:47PM -0400, BandiPat wrote: > On Friday 21 July 2006 12:19, Klaus Kaempf wrote: > > * BandiPat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Jul 21. 2006 14:33]: > > > Setting up repositories > > > not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - > > > http://www2.ati.com/suse/ > > > Cann

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-21 Thread Andreas Hanke
Hi, BandiPat schrieb: > So are you saying there are no files to list? I was running the search > for the file, one file, listed by Marcus as being there along with the > other. The second url you guys have given just bring up some binary > code in Konq and every other part just "file not foun

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-21 Thread BandiPat
On Friday 21 July 2006 12:19, Klaus Kaempf wrote: > * BandiPat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Jul 21. 2006 14:33]: > > Setting up repositories > > not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - > > http://www2.ati.com/suse/ > > Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: ATI files > > Error: Cannot find a v

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-21 Thread Sven Burmeister
Hi! Am Donnerstag, 20. Juli 2006 23:17 schrieb Marcus Meissner: > While these are the SLED 10 drivers, but SLE 10 now has the same kernel as > SUSE Linux 10.1. Is this a one-off, or can SuSE 10.1 users rely on that repo to get the packages for ati and nvidia drivers, i.e. is the kernel going to

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-21 Thread Gabriel .
In my case, I need Legacy (Ver.7174 GeForce 256) NVIDIA driver :( Could Novell incluide it in the Repo ftp://download.nvidia.com/novell Thanks a Lot. !! Chau Gabriel On 7/21/06, Klaus Kaempf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * BandiPat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Jul 21. 2006 14:33]: > > Setting up reposi

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-21 Thread Klaus Kaempf
* BandiPat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Jul 21. 2006 14:33]: > > Setting up repositories > not using ftp, http[s], or file for repos, skipping - > http://www2.ati.com/suse/ > Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: ATI files > Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: ATI files > > That resulted in bo

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-21 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 08:33:12AM -0400, BandiPat wrote: > On Friday 21 July 2006 05:12, Marcus Meissner wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 10:08:16AM +0200, Ben wrote: > > > Op donderdag 20 juli 2006 23:17, schreef Marcus Meissner: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Whoever wants to try, with todays ker

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-21 Thread BandiPat
On Friday 21 July 2006 05:12, Marcus Meissner wrote: > On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 10:08:16AM +0200, Ben wrote: > > Op donderdag 20 juli 2006 23:17, schreef Marcus Meissner: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Whoever wants to try, with todays kernel update using ATI and > > > NVIDIA commercial drivers should now be

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-21 Thread Ben
Op vrijdag 21 juli 2006 11:12, schreef Marcus Meissner: > On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 10:08:16AM +0200, Ben wrote: > > Op donderdag 20 juli 2006 23:17, schreef Marcus Meissner: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Whoever wants to try, with todays kernel update using ATI and NVIDIA > > > commercial drivers should now

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-21 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 10:08:16AM +0200, Ben wrote: > Op donderdag 20 juli 2006 23:17, schreef Marcus Meissner: > > Hi, > > > > Whoever wants to try, with todays kernel update using ATI and NVIDIA > > commercial drivers should now be possible (again). > > > > Add as ZYPP / YUM source: > > > >

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-21 Thread Ben
Op donderdag 20 juli 2006 23:17, schreef Marcus Meissner: > Hi, > > Whoever wants to try, with todays kernel update using ATI and NVIDIA > commercial drivers should now be possible (again). > > Add as ZYPP / YUM source: > > http://www2.ati.com/suse/ as repo for ATI drivers and > Package

Re: [opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-20 Thread BandiPat
On Thursday 20 July 2006 17:17, Marcus Meissner wrote: > Hi, > > Whoever wants to try, with todays kernel update using ATI and NVIDIA > commercial drivers should now be possible (again). > > Add as ZYPP / YUM source: > > http://www2.ati.com/suse/ as repo for ATI drivers and > Packages:

[opensuse] nvidia and ati now back

2006-07-20 Thread Marcus Meissner
Hi, Whoever wants to try, with todays kernel update using ATI and NVIDIA commercial drivers should now be possible (again). Add as ZYPP / YUM source: http://www2.ati.com/suse/ as repo for ATI drivers and Packages: x11-video-fglrx ati-fglrx-kmp-defa