On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Samuel Sieb <samuel(a)sieb.net> wrote:
Why would the kernel modules be shown in Gnome Software? That goes
against all that I've heard about it. All the low level things like
libraries and non-graphical programs are not shown.
I believe it has appstream metainfo. Software shows plugins and fonts
and codecs and other stuff that is useful to non-developers. Not
libraries or CLI programs, no.
I'm definitely not the right person to talk to about the history of
Negativo, but my understanding is this. Christian asked people to list
their complaints about Fedora -- why don't you use Fedora? -- and one
of the most important results was that installing Nvidia's crap
proprietary driver is too hard, and that it frequently breaks during
kernel updates. So there's two parts to that problem. Part one is
making it appear in GNOME Software, so that it's easy to install. Part
two is making it not break. Both parts needed to be fixed.
I actually can't myself find it in GNOME Software, but I never checked
the checkbox in gnome-initial-setup to enable proprietary software
sources. Hopefully if someone who checked that checkbox were to search,
it would show up. Hopefully....
And that still doesn't solve the signing issue. Gnome Software
can't turn off secure boot for you, so those kernel modules you've
installed will not load. Installing third party kernel modules are a
command line operation and if you have secure boot, will require
other manual intervention as well.
I don't know anything about that. :( But Ubuntu has been supporting the
Nvidia driver for many, many years without requiring any use of the
CLI. I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't work with secure boot. Maybe
that will be the next challenge to fix.
Michael