OK, that’s enough. I’ve been waiting since june, hoping that my ATI driver would get updated, but it just ain’t happening. There’s already a v8.552-0.1 in the repo while I’m still stuck with the v8.493-7.1! I know, I know, I could manually force YaST to update, but fact is, I want it to do that automagically. So my question is: what do I have to (re)configure in order to get the ATI update listed alongside other pending updates when the Auto-Update notifier pops up?
By the way: I noticed the same happens to other “external” (non-Main) repositories too. Why is the Main Repository the only one to get updated on a regular basis?
Bumper. Could it be I posted this in the wrong forum after all?
Why would you want your ATI driver to update automatically? The latest version may not even work with your kernel.
And in that case, you’d turn on you computer one day and be greeted with a blank screen and have no idea what caused it.
Hopefully that would NOT be the day when you needed to get online ASAP and send a life or death email or do something really really important, because a blank screen could take hours to troubleshoot if you did not know what caused it.
Thanks for replying. So, then, what would be the best practice for updating one’s graphic card drivers? And what about the other repositories, such as Packman? Should I just set them up once and for all and never even bother updating? Any suggestions highly appreciated.
If using the qt Software Management interface:
Change the Search drop-down to repositories.
Click on the repo you want to update.
On the right pane, right click one of the packages and choose All in this list, update all with newer versions available.
If you don’t have auto-check enabled, click the check button on the bottom, then when dependencies are resolved click the Apply button.
If you know you want to update everything to the latest versions in all your repos, choose Package Categories instead of Repositories and then scroll down and click zzz_all and then click one of the packages that show up on the right and do that all in this list thing.
Not sure how to do it in the GTK Software Management interface. Might be similar. If not, change the setting from auto to qt for the Yast GUI in /etc/system_config editor in the YaST System panel.
Hey, forgot to thank you for that. I’ll try that out when I’m over my newbie phase and learn how to correctly resolve conflicts without messing up my system!
