nvidia or ati ?

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Sat Oct 29 08:07:48 UTC 2005


Am Freitag, den 28.10.2005, 14:22 -0400 schrieb Tony Nelson:
> At 8:08 AM +0200 10/28/05, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> >Jeff Vian wrote:
> >...
> >> 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.
> >
> >I can do that, you can do that.
> >
> >The "ordinary users" I have can't. :-(
> >
> >Some of them have dualboot machines, and therefore
> >reboot regularly.
> >
> >Hm, I'll guess it would be easier to stick with the files
> >from nvidia and make a script that is run during boot
> >that builds and installs the kernel module, if necessary.
> 
> Yes, and after your users have tested it a while, how about submitting it
> as a RFE for the livna packages?  It sounds useful.

I have something like that already, but never finished it nor included
it in the nvidia or ati livna packages. If people are interested in it
and (most important!) help testing I'm going to work on this further. 
-- 
Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>




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