SUSE+NVIDIA Makes The Graphics Binary Driver Easier To Deploy On Tumbleweed

[starshipeleven]

It's the way of things. Help people => get burnt to the stake. Because.

No.
He was pointing out that Fedora got flamed for doing this same thing, while for OpenSUSE tumbleweed it's all niceness and kittens.

EDIT: forgot a HAIL SUSE! (may the all-seeing chameleon forgive me)

[starshipeleven]

openSUSE and nVidia?

More like NVIDIA and NVIDIA with some minor consulting from SUSE, as the RPM comes from a third party repo hosted by NVIDIA themselves.

[aufkrawall]

If they are serious about it, it has to mean that Nvidia will cope better with necessary changes for new kernels/Xorgs than until now (it's not bad with bleeding edge driver branches for current card gens, but a risk remains).
I also hope they took care about proper Zypper hooks for Xorg updates. Afterall, a very welcome (and overdue) change.

[Space Beer]

Great news for nVidia GPU users. For my needs, openSUSE (Leap) is the best linux distro, and I would like to use it for pro openGL and CL tasks (for CAD and compute). But I'm still waiting for official amdgpu-pro dirver for Leap. I would rather use Ubuntu (based distro) with amdgpu-pro or Windows than nVidia card and openSUSE :|

[bug77]

No.
He was pointing out that Fedora got flamed for doing this same thing, while for OpenSUSE tumbleweed it's all niceness and kittens.

EDIT: forgot a HAIL SUSE! (may the all-seeing chameleon forgive me)

Yes. Fedora did a good thing and got burnt for it. Because people felt like it.

[TingPing]

But I'm still waiting for official amdgpu-pro dirver for Leap. I would rather use Ubuntu (based distro) with amdgpu-pro or Windows than nVidia card and openSUSE :|

What do you want from amdgpu-pro? The open source OpenCL driver is out so hopefully that will become usable.

[GreatEmerald]

Oh, thanks for the heads-up! I was already using the Bumblebee repository that packaged NVIDIA drivers with DKMS, so this is not much of a change, but it's nice to see more official support for it.

More like NVIDIA and NVIDIA with some minor consulting from SUSE, as the RPM comes from a third party repo hosted by NVIDIA themselves.

No, NVIDIA just provides the hosting space. The RPMs are built by openSUSE. Same is true for Leap ones.

[OneBitUser]

Great news for nVidia GPU users. For my needs, openSUSE (Leap) is the best linux distro, and I would like to use it for pro openGL and CL tasks (for CAD and compute). But I'm still waiting for official amdgpu-pro dirver for Leap. I would rather use Ubuntu (based distro) with amdgpu-pro or Windows than nVidia card and openSUSE :|

I think the SLES/SLED driver is available for Leap, at least I seem to remember that the installation script checked if the installation target distro was SLES/SLED or openSUSE.

[DrYak]

This makes it easier to *get* drivers for openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Whereas they will actually work is an entirely different manner.

Because, hey, it's 2017, why should Nvidia jump into the Kernel Mode Setting like everybody else ?
Why not just completely fuck up the console display after the laptop sleeps ? And randomly crash on sleep wake-ups ? and cause the display remain dark or even crash the whole system ?

Thank you Nvidia, but no. I'll stay on Nouveau for my laptop.
And build every other system where I have more choice on AMD Radeons.

[starshipeleven]

I think the SLES/SLED driver is available for Leap, at least I seem to remember that the installation script checked if the installation target distro was SLES/SLED or openSUSE.

Yes, the install script does check for OpenSUSE. Last time I tried it ( months ago) was a bit broken though and required some help to actually recognize my Leap, but it did have the code to check for OpenSUSE too.

As a general rule, if it works in SLES then it works in OpenSUSE Leap. That's the whole point of Leap, its basically a free SLES, SUSE's equivalent of CentOS of RedHat.