Okay, I was a full time Suse user some years ago. I haven’t been with Suse in a long time, but now I’m trying to get a grip on it. I’ve pretty much been using PCLinuxOS, for the most part, since I left Suse. I’ve setup my install to use Tumbleweed because I love PCLinuxOS’s rolling release. Now, Suse used to use DKMS, is that no longer the case? The reason I’m asking is this whole nVidia driver thing and Tumbleweed. DKMS would solve that problem. When I was a Suse user, it was one of the big draws of using Suse.
So, if I just use the Nouveau driver, what am I missing out on? I’ve never used the Nouveau driver on any Linux distro. Is it any good, vs. the proprietary driver?
Tumbleweed will require you install nvidia manually. No DKMS
Nouveau will not provide the desktop effects or may not do so very well. I always add the nvidia driver.
Have you seen the guides on Tumbleweed?
Yes, I’ve been looking at just about everything having to do with Tumbleweed. Sadly, the lack of DKMS is something that could hold back users from adopting Tumbleweed more widespread. I’m glad openSuse has offered this option, but I hope they’ll go back to using DKMS in the future to rectify this situation. To my memory, at least prior to Novell’s ownership, Suse used DKMS.
IMO Tumbleweed does require some experience (Which you seem to have). But it’s not something I would recommend for deployment.
I have a similar opinion of Mint’s LMDE.
I’ve installed nVidia’s proprietary driver, now. Been a long time since I’ve done that! Maybe MY memory is failing me. I think it was Mandrake/Mandriva that always used it. DKMS would be a step in the right direction for Suse, though.
I only just installed 12.1 on my main box, having sworn to myself not to bother. The flash is week with such temptations
I had fun with the graphics. During install it was fantastic, best I have ever had during install. But post install I got garbage. I had to wait until I knew the auto-config had done and then reboot using nomodeset. Then install the nvidia driver, but using the nvidia repo, as I ain’t using Tweed.
All is good now.
On 20.11.2011 20:06, ruel24 wrote:
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> I’ll live with it. Do the developers look at this forum? DKMS would be a
> nice feature for openSuse.
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If you are referring to
“dkms - Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework”
it is in the Packman repo I think.
zypper in dkms will install it.
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