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Subject: Re:nvidia driver breaks with pretty much every F8 update
From: Peter McNeil <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 03/26/2008 10:06 PM
Ric Moore wrote:
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 11:25 +1100, Peter McNeil wrote:
For some reason the update to a new kernel seems to randomly point
to a kernel to boot by default which would be OK but the livna
nvidia setup breaks the older kernels nvidia module, so you need to
make sure you boot on the latest kernel by default (by editing
/etc/grub.conf to point to the latest kernel).
The "solution" is to install the nvidia module manually from the
nvidia site download, which is not really a simple option.
Just my two cents, but it has been the simple answer for me. I update
the kernel, re-run the installer and I'm back up and running in minutes,
instead of dinking around with yum doing it's thing and then maybe not
finding the version to match my kernel at first. Nary a burp in the
barrel. Ric
yeah once you've done it once it mostly keeps working and is simple.
The real trick is to unpack the installer and run ./nvidia-installer
-K from that directory to just install a new kernel module for the
running kernel.
Or you guys could dump Livna and use the package from freshrpms.net,
which uses DKMS. It automatically rebuilds the module on a kernel change
- even non-RPM kernel changes if you manually compile a kernel.
Regards,
Mike
