[wellylug] Is SUSE a desktop distro? (AARRGGHH!)

[Andrej]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 19:34, Ian Sterling wrote:
> I'm sorry, but I really don't agree with you on this.  In the
> past, it was indeed a pain to install the nvidia drivers. 
> However, for the last six or twelve months, nvidia's had the
> wonderful installer they've been making available to the
> average joe user.  All one needs to do is (as root)

> sh /path/to/NVIDIAdrivers.bin

> ...And about 45 seconds later, the driver is rebuilt.  You
> need to install the modules with the new kernel anyway (yes, I
> know it's part of the normal kernel upgrade/install process,
> but...), why do it half-arsed?  It's not that much extra time
> than updating lilo or grub anyway.
Unless of course it compiles fine and then Xorg refuses to
start :) as happened here today, trying to get it to play nicely
with the 2.6.8.1 kernel.

All happy with 2.4.26 (good working order) and no show
with 2.6.8.1 ... even though the kernel level driver loads fine
and is obviously active in lsmod xorg complains that it can't
talk to it...


Cheers,
Andrej