Comments on: Extremely easy driver installation

By: Sławek

Sławek — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:59:25 +0000

“It requires the driver to be in one of the repositories you have in your system when plugging the hardware. So, no, it does not solve the repository case.”

One Click Install will solve it? Not, really. At repositories can use mirror servers(maybe).

By: Nowości - 18.09.2008 at livio’s way

Nowości - 18.09.2008 at livio’s way — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:42:43 +0000

[...] Ekstremalnie łatwa instalacja sterowników [...]

By: Boycott Novell » Do-No-Evil Saturday - Part I: OpenSUSE Calls for Testers and Boarders [sic]

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:59:17 +0000

[...] neat feature of device installation (driver selection) is shown in this blog post from Duncan. Since openSUSE 10.1, ZYpp has the ability to recommend packages based on drivers and [...]

By: duncan

duncan — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:44:37 +0000

You should be able to see it already in Factory in the following days, that means 11.1

By: ryan

ryan — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:02:43 +0000

That is outstanding! Do you know yet if it will be available in openSUSE 11.1 or 11.2?

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:31:45 +0000

Enabling OSS, Non-OSS, and update repos is already possible during the installation process. Is it possible for them to be enabled before the hardware check?

If so, is it possible to have the installation media check the ATI and Nvidia repositories during installation?

If they could, then maybe the user could be notified 1) that those drivers are available - click to add, 2) those drivers are proprietary, etc.

By: duncan

duncan — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:36:38 +0000

It requires the driver to be in one of the repositories you have in your system when plugging the hardware. So, no, it does not solve the repository case.

By: dum

dum — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:28:26 +0000

nice work.

Will it also work with ATI and Nvidia drivers after installing OpenSUSE? And what happens when there is no driver available?

By: bico

bico — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:20:31 +0000

This is very useful. SuSE had a hardware detection/info tray applet in the 9.x series (suseplugger?), but it dissapeared since the newer versions. It was not able to install drivers, but at least it notified the user about new hardware.

By: Instalação de drivers extremamente fácil « openSUSE in pt_BR!

Instalação de drivers extremamente fácil « openSUSE in pt_BR! — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:22:16 +0000

[...] zypper que estará presente na próxima versão do openSUSE. Este post é uma tradução do blog do Duncan Mac-Vicar, um dos desenvolvedores do [...]