On 12/26/2011 06:22 PM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
On 12/26/2011 05:07 PM, Pete Travis wrote:
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> On Dec 26, 2011 2:07 PM, "Lawrence Graves" <lgraves95(a)gmail.com
<mailto:lgraves95@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> > I would like to do an update on my Dell 9400 Inspiron which is running 275.43
nvidia drivers. Is there a command that will
> allow me this option if need. Please help.
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> > Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
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> You don't need to worry about it unless there is a kernel update, at which point
you should reinstall the drivers so they build
> against the new kernel. IIRC, that's. '/NVIDIA.RUN --uninstall '
>
> Try the kmod again while you have the nvidia ones uninstalled, if you like. I still
haven't read where the default drivers were
> inadequate for you....
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I am going to do this for you Pete, and pray it works. I haven't tried this way
before. I have install Fedora 16 on my laptop
about 30 times trying to get the 290.10 nvidia drivers from rpmfusion to installed but I
never tried it this way.
--
Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
After installing the nvidia drivers from
nvidia.com you will need to recompile them
against the kernel if you've updated it. You
can do this by rerunning the nvidia-installer in runlevel3. Then you change to runlevel5
and the nvidia driver will load. We
(Lawrence and I) went around and around with the kmod/akmod stuff with the 290.10 driver
and it *just wouldn't work* (he could
*never* get an X screen). Once there is a kmod/akmod for th 275.43 driver then I would
suggest going back to that solution so he
can update his kernel at will. Until then, if he wants a working X, he's going to
have to go about it this way.
Kevin