[ale] Don't trust Yast!

[Brian Stanaland]

YAST has always worked for me to install nvidia drivers.  Granted I've
only used two different systems.  One was a desktop with a GeForce 3
and the other was a notebook with a GeForce 4 440 Go.

Brian

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:21:17 -0500, James Taylor
<James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com> wrote:
> I hate to say it, but the YaST Online Update install of the NVidia driver has never worked for me.  I've always had to install from the shell script.  I keep trying on each update, and it keeps failing.
> 
> The Xwindows system is the one area where YaST seems to have problems.
> 
> -jt
> 
> >>>Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com 03/14/05 10:14 pm >>>
> It would be nice if you would report the error to SUSE so they can fix
> the bug in Yast.  I'll keep your report in mind as I look to upgrade to
> 9.2 soon.
> Dow
> 
> Orri Rail wrote:
> 
> >After 2 weeks of (unsuccessfully) trying to get my 20"
> >lcd in 1600x1200 res. with nvidia fx5200, have I
> >finally found the problem.
> >
> >Yast doesn't update the nvidia drivers, even though it
> >claims success!  The correct binaries are downloaded,
> >but the current/old drivers aren't updated.  (Nvidia
> >even promotes using Yast for Suse users.)
> >
> >Only after manually running the nvidia driver scripts,
> >do I (finally) have the right resolution working.
> >
> >Orri
> >
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