[opensuse] nvidia & ralink conflict

Hi
this is mostly a thanks for yast mostly sorting out my problem. I was
running my 2.6.24-rc2-4 kernel again which I knew did not work with my
legacy nvidia GeForce2 MX 200 card due to advice I found after reading
mails about other people's problems installing ralink wireless cards.
In fact after recompiling with my version of gcc ( above kernel was
compiled with 4.3 ) and enabling the ralink drivers it worked perfectly
but my desktop slowed due to nvidia being gone.
Then I started yast sw_single and did a reset ignored dependency
conflicts and verify system yast suddenly wanted to downgrade my kernel,
install ralink drivers and install nvidia drivers again. I decided to go
along and included kernel sources for said downgrade (upgrade for my old
2.6.22.9-0.4 )
and downloaded the whole kernel-default-2.6.22.13-0.3.i586.rpm and
source and syms (remember I once said I wanted yast to keep copies once
and smart package manager doesn't work properly yet) .
I then rebooted and as usual my x server didn't start. I was ready for
this. I logged in as root and ran NVIDIA-Linux-x86-96.43.01-pkg1.run and
it fixed my nvidia problem.
My main problem is why did I have to do that, why couldn't my desktop
come up immediately. I have noticed various other people with, what
seems to be, the same problem. The suse nvidia legacy drivers have a
problem that the nvidia ones don't and I think it's just a configuration
one, sax doesn't work anymore, is this something to do with politics?
I emailed nvidia about their legacy driver and 2.6.24-rc2-4 kernel by
the way, I prefer the nvidia x server configuration from nvidia. Why
can't suse use that one.
Dave Plater
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