openSUSE Forums: Manual rebuilding of proprietary graphic drivers?

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Manual rebuilding of proprietary graphic drivers? Sep 10th 2012, 09:02 I'm new to Opensuse, coming over from Kubuntu. While looking around at things, I came across the Tumbleweed portal, which sounds like something I'd like to follow. It worries me though, that the first topic I see is entitled Who should try Tumbleweed?, where it states "Due to the Linux kernel being updated very frequently, users who rely on proprietary graphic drivers should not use the Tumbleweed repository unless they are familiar with updating these drivers from source on their own." Are you seriously telling me that if I update the kernel, I'll have to rebuild the graphic drivers manually? I can't recall the last time I had to do that. I installed Nvidas drivers because the system was unusable after the first reboot without them. I've never really cared for the nv drivers and would have done it anyway. I've always used the official Nvidia drivers. What about VirtualBox? I installed dkms while installing that, will that work for VB and the Nvidia drivers, or just VB, or neither? Am I going to have to freeze my kernel to keep from breaking my system on an update?

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