On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 13:24 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 13:17, Claude Jones wrote: > > On Sunday September 24 2006 1:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > I don't use the proprietary drivers, but I did once have them installed, a > > > couple of years ago. IIRC they have to be compiled against the running > > > kernel, so updating your kernel means re-compiling the nvidia drivers. I'm > > > sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. > > > > I use the proprietary drivers from Livna on most of my machines. The release > > of updated modules lags by a few hours to days, the release of a new kernel. > > The good news is that of late, you don't have to manually locate the new > > modules and install them - when they get released yum picks them up in the > > regular update process. > > Can yum automatically defer updating the kernel until the > in-use modules are also available in matching versions? That would be sweet. FYI, when yum updated the kernel, there was no nvidia driver out, so it blew up. I use the hell outa graphics here and whatever substitutes for the nvidia driver ain't up to the load. So, I removed the new kernel, re-installed the older one, re-installed the drivers, it burped once or twice and then settled in, while creating a new ulcer. I've wasted the entire weekend on this and that bind thing. This is not a life, this is no way to live. I'm going back to wrest with a system that lacks bind-config, whatever in the hell it does. And, no. They haven't updated the mirrors yet or yum would have installed the package when I asked it nicely to. rpm -q says bind-config ain't at home. Yum says it has nothing to do. I would like to do useful work and not live to do all of this shit. I am peeved. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
