Bug 104390

Summary:	YOU-script for d/l NVIDIA-drivers will lead GeForce 2 users into trouble.
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Forgotten User --EoyBps8f <forgotten_--EoyBps8f>
Component:	YOU	Assignee:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	hmuelle
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	32bit
OS:	All
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Forgotten User --EoyBps8f 2005-08-12 13:23:30 UTC

Somehow I already had the MS Fonts and NVIDIA script in YOU. Both failed to  
d/l the fonts/drivers, yet did not throw an error.  
However it seems that the NVIDIA-script will not change from 9.3 to 10, so  
there will be problems for users who own a NVIDIA-card (e.g. GeForce2) and use  
the script, as the most recent drivers do not support any card older than  
GeForce3. Yet the script's title only states: NVIDIA-drivers.  
  
As a result users will end up with X not coming up, which is extremely  
difficult to solve for people not familiar with sax2. If they just own one  
computer they even cannot access the internet, because X not coming up, ergo  
cannot get help online.  
  
Best solution would be to make the script detect the graphics card and handle 
which driver to d/l. The easiest solution would be to offer two scripts, one 
labled e.g. "Geforce3 and above", the other "older cards".  
  
I think that Version: 1.0-7174 is the last driver to work for GeForce 2 and  
lower.

Comment 1 Lukas Ocilka 2005-08-14 21:40:56 UTC

This should be probably for -> MIR
But Installation (YaST) logs would be helpful

Comment 2 Michael Radziej 2005-08-15 10:10:27 UTC

This is a problem in the YOU patch and not within YOU.
==> Reassigning to Mr. Maintenance ;-)

Comment 3 Harald Mueller-Ney 2005-08-15 10:40:46 UTC

Assigning to the "creator" of the updates.

Comment 4 Stefan Dirsch 2005-08-15 10:51:34 UTC

We don't plan to support various nvidia drivers. The script behind the YOU patch
is already adjusted (for Beta1!) not to download and try to install the nvidia
driver on boards with legacy nvidia chipsets. AFAIK YOU is still not capable to
show only Patches, which are useful for the user.

Comment 5 Forgotten User --EoyBps8f 2005-08-15 11:22:30 UTC

Is there an error message, or does YOU just load the script, not d/l the 
drivers and show to te user 100% done?

Comment 6 Stefan Dirsch 2005-08-15 12:50:28 UTC

There is an error message:

  "Legacy nVidia chipsets are no longer supported since "
  "driver version 1.0-7664"

Unfortunately YOU cannot display it. Therefore the script returns with exit code
0, because many users were confused by an error when selecting the nvidia patch
with e.g. a radeon board.

Comment 7 Harald Mueller-Ney 2005-08-15 13:35:08 UTC

We could add it in a POST-message, but I think this will confuse even more
users, cause a post-message can't be bound to a condition.