Am Samstag, den 29.10.2005, 17:32 -0400 schrieb Tony Nelson: > 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. Won't be very useful because the ati-fglrx packages need a Radeon 8500 or above. -- Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
