nvidia or ati ?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Jeff Vian wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 18:08 +0200, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
>> Neal Becker wrote:
>>> I _strongly_ recommend the nvidia driver packaged by livna.  rpms.livna.org,
>>> IIRC.
>>
>> Is it possible to set it up so that if you run
>> yum update every night, a new kernel is not installed
>> until the corresponding nvidia kernel module from livna
>> is available?
>>
>
> The kernel is installed, not updated.
> It does not load the new kernel until a reboot occurs so if you watch
> for the update in the yum.log then you can do the reboot and driver
> update at your convenience.

Also see /etc/sysconfig/kernel, where you can specify that the kernel 
install not change grub to boot the new kernel by default.  Then when the 
nvidia module comes out, you can install it and update /etc/grub.conf by 
hand to boot the new kernel.

>
>> Mogens


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