In my rant last week, I complained about how the Nvidia installer
uninstalled the video driver for previous kernels. Some people said
this wasn't so.
This morning I installed kernel 2849 via yum. When I ran it, I was
forced to build a new driver using the
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9629-pkg1.run installer. This is the same
installer that I used with my 2835 kernel last week.
When I did the install this morning, I received the following. (From
my /var/log/nvidia-installer.log)
"> There appears to already be a driver installed on your system
(version: 1.0-
9629). As part of installing this driver (version: 1.0-9629), the
existing
driver will be uninstalled. Are you sure you want to continue? ('no'
will a
bort installation) (Answer: Yes)"
So it appears that one must un install the driver for the previous
kernel to install a driver for the current kernel. Just to be sure, I
tried running kernel 2835 and X windows will not start for it. So the
previous driver does get un installed, even though the same installer is
being used.
This causes me a lot of grief.
If anyone knows of a work around for this problem, I'd love to hear it.
Thanks.
--
Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
