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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 02:25:01 -0600
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On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 03:09, dballester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Well, for a sysadmin or an advanceduserwithtimetowaste it's fine, but if I wanna expand the GNU/Linux in my company, I must convince my boss. And i can't say him: 'Well, may be 3 times monthly a new and more advanced kernel can be automatically installed for you. Then, after reboot, your screen will be flickering for a while, wait for 5 minutes aprox and then a message saying that X server could not be started will be appear. Always answer 'NO' to all messages or your X configuration may change, making PROBABLY your X server refuse to start, or at least start as supposed. After all messages as been answered, log in a console as root. Go, using command line, to access the file where the nvidia is and execute it ( ./ or path, etc... ). -Here explain nvidia installer procedure, message and sense- After that, try to start your X server executing startx, if all goes well, log out and start multiuser X mode ( telinit 5 ). If something goes wrong, stop your work and try to solve the problem, if problem persist, call me.
I understand the feeling. I had some trouble with Nvidia and the new kernels for a while.
But isn't it odd that, with all the technical explanation above that they _don't_ want, that they'll accept "It's broken and nobody knows how to fix it without a million-dollar support contract from Microsoft" is an acceptable alternative?
What you have to do is get some hardware set up, test out what you want to do, and THEN roll out the changes when you're satisfied with the results. I'm about to start a business of my own with the same technique; it's worked everywhere I've worked before. Nothing's guaranteed, ya know?
I found that the RPM's didn't work for me either.
I don't do an auto kernel upgrade. I manually install the kernel
(rpm -ivh kernel...) to give me a fall back. I then install the NVidia driver and reboot.
Now I thought I read that NVidia is working on including the driver with the distros under their licencing agreement.
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Robin Laing
