[ale] Don't trust Yast!

[Orri Rail]

It didn't even show failures on my side, worse yet, it
claimed success!

--- 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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