-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re:nvidia driver breaks with pretty much every F8 update
From: Peter McNeil <peter(a)mcneils.net>
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
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