Peter McNeil wrote:
Paul Johnson wrote:Re the Nvidia drivers, no you're not making any mistake, this is a problem with the livna nvidia packaging, the problem is they update the version numbers and the kernel module barfs when it sees a different version number (I think) so they remove the old module.I came to work today and glanced at the yum logs. When it installs a ... I can't believe I'm the only one seeing this, but nobody else is yelling about it, so I must be the only one. That makes me think I've got something configured incorrectly. I can report in bugzilla, but won't do that until I'm sure it is not some bonehead mistake I've made. At least I'm consistent. It is happening on all the PCs I administer...I just reverted to doing the nvidia install manually you need to unpack the Nvidia-blah.run using the -x flag, change to that unpacked NVIDIA directory and run nvidia-installer -K to just install a new kernel module.Having said that the livna packages are certainly easy and a good thing, just not if you have a new kernel with bugs (like the 2.6.24 kernels)Cheers, Peter.
For Nvidia, I use the freshrpms version as it uses dkms and will re-create the module on reboot. No waiting or re-installing due to livna being seconds behind the release of the new kernel. :)
-- Robin Laing
