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Support for openSUSE #48
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Take a look at the main structure of the installer here: https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/About-the-installer-and-packaging |
Check for #111 |
Almost finished with repackaging the nVidia driver for openSuSE. I am testing installation / upgrading / uninstalling of the nVidia driver on different systems (also non-optimus systems) right now. ( SLED SP1, openSuSE 11.3, 11.4, Tumbleweed and Factory.) |
Hello all.... |
It's going well, with Ximi efforts and distro-agnostic installer, we're going forward. |
If you need any help or help with testing, let me know. Josh On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 17:08, Bruno Pagani <
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The openSuSE version should be ready now...Hopefully I did not forget anything. I will merge the opensuse-dev tree with the develop tree this weekend after testing my patches on an Ubuntu system. The Bumblebee-develop repository will be updated tonight. Have fun ! |
Sorry, not available anymore due to restrictions of the OpenBuildService. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Please use the new Bumblebee nVidia repository !!! hxxp://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Bumblebee-Project:/nVidia:/latest/opensuse_11.3 The install script will check for this dependency, but the Bumblebee repo packages will not check. |
I'll test this one on my Arch machine to check compatibility. Please note the directive to merge into a main branch. Looks good ;) after this one is done, could you help us on the discussion of the distro-agnostic installer? Good work @Ximi1970 |
The following repos are now updated to version 2.4.1 opensuse-dev: Please note that there are still no bumblebe releases for the stable and unstable openSuSE repos except for acpi_call and VirtualGL. As soon as the opensuse version trickles down the git tree, these repos will also be filled. |
@Samsagax thanks for testing on Arch. Arch is still missing on my 16 distro test harddisk :-) |
@Ximi1970: The installation works as before, so no incompatibilities so far. Have to check when installed. |
@Samsagax: Thanks, found a bug/typo in common-functions. Fixed it in the opensuse-dev tree. |
Ubuntu testing done. |
I will try that on Ubuntu Oneiric on release thursday. |
Unfortunately I am not allowed anymore to redistribute the modified nVidia packages on the OpenBuildService. I will need to find a new way to use the nVidia packages without directly including them into an rpm...... |
Could you still support it through nouveau at least? What's preventing you from redistributing nvidia binaries? |
Nouveau is still working "fine". Open Build Service rules are preventing me to add them to a package. I got a warning from a SuSE guy who pointed me to the rules page of the Service and requested to delete the nVidia packages. The problem seems to be this: The reasons why a certain software package is not included in the main openSUSE are the following:
.... The closed source, proprietary nvidia driver which requires the nvidia kernel module which many kernel developers regard as being in violation of the GNU General Public License. So I am going to create an rpm package that does not contain the proprietary package of nVidia but instead will download the driver package from nVidia as soon as the package is installed. It only makes installing nVidia very slow... |
you can try here: http://packman.links2linux.org/ (i found somewhere that here can be added even packages with proprietary license) |
Well, actually the copyright is not a problem in this case as the Nvidia license itself says that you can redistribute the software without modifications (obviously). But of course is not an open source license. Maybe you must host it somewhere else. Still, give support for nouveau drivers as they are progressing faster than those from nvidia, and as more we are, more we will be. |
Here is request for Bumblebee for Opensuse https://features.opensuse.org/312901. |
Thanks for opening the request. Added my vote :-) |
I just found it but want to help get votes for all of us. |
I am also happy to help with working on OpenSuSE support too as far as testing and such. I have Alienware M11x R2. |
I am happy to report that the nVidia support has been added again! Hopefully the new nVidia packages are conform the OBS rules... The driver itself will now use the DKMS system. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support) Installing the new packages can take a long time because the package will automaticaly download the original nVidia driver package from the nVidia website and install the required driver/libs/links/executables from that package. |
great idea P.S. |
Just add the repositorries, install the bumblebee package and nVidia packages and give it a try. Bumblebee: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Bumblebee-Project:/Bumblebee/openSUSE_12.1/ nVidia: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Bumblebee-Project:/nVidia:/latest/openSUSE_12.1/ |
We need to support openSUSE.
Ximi1970 should do that.
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