On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:33:07AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > I have two machines that use livna kmod packages, one kmod-ntfs, the > other a Radeon fglrx driver. I've been using the ntfs drivers > sucessfully for several months. I have just installed the Radeon card, > so cannot be sure this isn't a new installation issue. Followup. This morning's updates brought the missing kernel in, and I installed it. I now have two kernels of what apprear to be the same major, minor and patch numbers on my system: kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.6.4.fc6.i686 kernel-2.6.19-1.2911.fc6.i686 Huh? I went ahead with the normal stuff to get the driver enabled. Running glxgears indicated that the system now runs slower than it did before I installed the driver. Again, Huh? I finally rebooted. On the way up, the system locked up. I rebooted again. The system came up, and glxgears reports speeds ranging between 500 and 1000 fps, not exactly a steady rate. However, GoogleEarth now works at a reasonable rate. * Why is a reboot necessary to install a driver module? Why are two reboots necessary to install a driver module? This is not Windows. * Why do I need what appears to be two different installations of the same kernel on my system? I'm getting irritated at Fedora being a bit too bleeding edge for my taste. I have work to do, and can't afford the time I spend farting around with this stuff. Maybe I should join Mr. Raymond over at Ubuntu. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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