On Sat, 2023-07-01 at 11:32 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote:
Does this mean that these drivers are replaced and accessed on the
fly
but the associated kernel modules do not become active until after a reboot?
That's generally the case. Various library updates can only be used
after ones in memory are purged, and a reboot can be the only way to
achieve that.
For certain module updates, they're not even a binary install. They're
compiled on your computer. For thinks like akmods, that was somewhere
in the boot-up process. I think some things, now, compile somewhere in
the shutdown process before a reboot. Either way, there's a delay you
need to wait for, and interrupting it causes some chaos. Made all the
more harder by there being little indication on-screen what's going on,
and some people will hard reset in the middle of things thinking the
computer has crashed.
If that is the case, and that mismatch is causing the browser html 5
game to think hardware acceleration is not available, how does anything
that requires hardware acceleration to function properly ever work after
an update?
That is a problem that just about requires a reboot.
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