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? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
