At 10:07 AM +0200 10/29/05, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >Am Freitag, den 28.10.2005, 14:22 -0400 schrieb Tony Nelson: >> At 8:08 AM +0200 10/28/05, Mogens Kjaer wrote: >> >Jeff Vian wrote: >> >... >> >> The kernel is installed, not updated. >> >> It does not load the new kernel until a reboot occurs so if you watch >> >> for the update in the yum.log then you can do the reboot and driver >> >> update at your convenience. >> > >> >I can do that, you can do that. >> > >> >The "ordinary users" I have can't. :-( >> > >> >Some of them have dualboot machines, and therefore >> >reboot regularly. >> > >> >Hm, I'll guess it would be easier to stick with the files >> >from nvidia and make a script that is run during boot >> >that builds and installs the kernel module, if necessary. >> >> Yes, and after your users have tested it a while, how about submitting it >> as a RFE for the livna packages? It sounds useful. > >I have something like that already, but never finished it nor included >it in the nvidia or ati livna packages. If people are interested in it >and (most important!) help testing I'm going to work on this further. I'm not using any such package now (don't do 3D games), but I do have an (old) ATI card (Radeon 7000/VE) in my machine. As I'm willing to volunteer the time of others, I suppose I could test an ATI package on my machine if that would be useful. Let me know. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
