Bug 231190

Summary:	automate nvidia installation
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	ferdinand gassauer <gassauer>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	aj, andreas.hanke, sndirsch
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	64bit
OS:	Other
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Description ferdinand gassauer 2006-12-31 09:05:06 UTC

Hi!
currently it is necessary to 
a) find the installation summary in http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA
b) execute all this manually

IMHO it would be rather user friendly to add the YUM repository automaticaly if a nvidia card is detected and check the packages for installation during the final update.

IMHO no end user will ever install nvidia 3D support the way it is now.

Comment 1 Matej Horvath 2006-12-31 13:50:13 UTC

The first application wich should do the "first step" according to the enhancement is the Sax during recognition, so I'm going to reassign it to it's maintainer.

Comment 2 Marcus Schaefer 2007-01-05 15:01:01 UTC

wouldn't this be more a task for the installer instead of the configuration tool.
I know yast is able to include foreign repositories in the very first step of
the installation. So everything needed to setup an additional installation
source is there in yast

Comment 3 Martin Vidner 2007-01-08 10:31:58 UTC

Stefan I feel this is a duplicate. Can you find a similar bug/feature?

Comment 6 Andreas Jaeger 2007-01-11 12:41:16 UTC

We will not add repositories for third party binary kernel modules in an automatic way.

Comment 8 ferdinand gassauer 2007-01-11 13:09:24 UTC

So yast2/sax2 may want to ask the user if that should be done for him.

Or at least give a hint where to find the necessary information.

It's the task of a world class distribution to make the installation process as easy as possible, and nvidia (and other) graphics cards are found in many of today computers.