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On Thursday 08 January 2004 4:05 pm, Neil Williams wrote:
Easy enough for those have some knowledge but can you imagine an ordinary user attempting this? We just shouldn't have to do all this after a security update. Linux will never become a user's OS until this sort of procedure is eliminated.True. Is the problem based in the hiatus in SUSE because of the impending approach of Novell, perhaps? Someone at SUSE not quite on-the-ball? It certainly doesn't help that nVidia drivers are not open source but the important thing is to REPORT the issue, get it public. As you've also managed to solve it, you have made the solution public too. Only then will the software advance.
I don't think SuSE/Novell issue is at fault here. Exactly the same problems arose after the previous kernel update which was some time before the merger was announced. Moreover the Nvidia preamble to the driver code appears to be heavily Redhat based and as we know there are distro peculiarities. While Nvidia and SuSE are supposed to be working together googling seems to reveal that Nvidia are some way behind the latest kernel devlopments and SuSE updates. I'm sure that if the Nvidia code was open source their drivers would be more up-to-date (ergo more efficient) and constructed so as to make driver reinstallation unnecessary after a kernel update. Keith -- SuSE 8.2 on ECS K7S5A/XP with 1.2GHz Athlon, 384MB RAM, Maxtor 20GB HD and using KDE's Kmail -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.